Convert Anamorphic to Square Pixel for Xbox 360

[superhero6]

In order to playback wmv content on my Xbox 360 it needs to be encoded with square pixels. The encodes that I have done work great on my PC but will only play as 4:3 on the Xbox. Im confused on what to resize to for the Xbox to display the video in widescreen. Is there a formula or program that can help me to determine what to resize to? I'm encoding from DVD backups 720x480 (2.35:1,1.85:1,etc). Thanks for help in advance.

[Skelsgard]

I´m assuming that the Xbox doesn´t letterbox so it takes whatever framesize to 4:3 DAR.
If so, a 16:9 movie should be put in a letterboxed 4:3 frame where the width of the movie is = to the width of the frame, and the height of the movie is 3/4 the height of the frame.
A 2.35 movie will have a movie height = height of frame / 1.765.

Cheers.

[superhero6]

So if I understand correctly then a 1.85:1 movie with a res of 720x480 would need to be 720x346? Great .. I will give it a shot and check the results. :cool:

[Skelsgard]

A 1.85:1 movie should be put in a letterboxed 4:3 frame where movie height = height of frame / 1.385.
480 / 1.385 = 346.

Yeap, is good.

Cheers.