justaghost
11th April 2007, 12:14
Hello,
I am trying to use AutoGK to turn my recorded PAL Analogue 4:3 SD mpeg2 television programs into XVID files, but I'm having great resolution difficulties. I realise that the width will change automatically for the best compression, but what I cant understand is why the resulting videos all have to be in various odd stretched resolutions. Considering they all have the same input resolution, are all 4:3, why are some really tall and thin, some fat and short, some square, some rectangular? This is using the default settings to make a 233mb video from 30 minute episodes.
The aspect ratios, resolutions and stretching for the files all vary to the extremes. I realise the resolution will adjust, but is there any way to end up with the right "shape" video at the end?
Bearing in mind this is PAL 4:3 fullscreen, so the videos start out with a resolution of 720x576. I know resolutions in America are different, is AutoGK treating the files like this, rather than as PAL videos?
When trying to watch these files on the computer, on my media player or through to my television, the resulting videos look rather odd, some unwatchable, especially when outputting to my television, when the original MPEG files look perfect.
I would really appreciate any advice on what I am doing wrong. This is my first post, so I apologise if anything I have asked is obvious. I tried to do my research, spent a long time searching for a solution both here and online and trying to read up on how autogk works, I've played with various options and combinations, but without any luck.
Plus, in the past with older versions of autoGK, with the same settings I am using now, as I recently upgraded, I seemed to get resolutions with a width of 450 or greater, now I seem to be lucky if its over 300. Is this related, am I doing something wrong, have things changed since older versions?
Is there any way to end up with videos the same shape as the originals, suitable for 4:3 viewing on a PAL SD fullscreen television?
Thankyou very much for your help :)
I am trying to use AutoGK to turn my recorded PAL Analogue 4:3 SD mpeg2 television programs into XVID files, but I'm having great resolution difficulties. I realise that the width will change automatically for the best compression, but what I cant understand is why the resulting videos all have to be in various odd stretched resolutions. Considering they all have the same input resolution, are all 4:3, why are some really tall and thin, some fat and short, some square, some rectangular? This is using the default settings to make a 233mb video from 30 minute episodes.
The aspect ratios, resolutions and stretching for the files all vary to the extremes. I realise the resolution will adjust, but is there any way to end up with the right "shape" video at the end?
Bearing in mind this is PAL 4:3 fullscreen, so the videos start out with a resolution of 720x576. I know resolutions in America are different, is AutoGK treating the files like this, rather than as PAL videos?
When trying to watch these files on the computer, on my media player or through to my television, the resulting videos look rather odd, some unwatchable, especially when outputting to my television, when the original MPEG files look perfect.
I would really appreciate any advice on what I am doing wrong. This is my first post, so I apologise if anything I have asked is obvious. I tried to do my research, spent a long time searching for a solution both here and online and trying to read up on how autogk works, I've played with various options and combinations, but without any luck.
Plus, in the past with older versions of autoGK, with the same settings I am using now, as I recently upgraded, I seemed to get resolutions with a width of 450 or greater, now I seem to be lucky if its over 300. Is this related, am I doing something wrong, have things changed since older versions?
Is there any way to end up with videos the same shape as the originals, suitable for 4:3 viewing on a PAL SD fullscreen television?
Thankyou very much for your help :)