double wide screen bars on my films

[vcdmad]

Hi

Most films that i encode seem to always end up with double black bars on the film ie supper wide screen on my TV

I use CCE and always select the correct angle 4.3 or 16.9 in the selection and again in Maestro i tell it if its a PAL or NTSC and select letter Box or pan.scan
But no luck in getting it to go full screen or just normal wide screen

but ive tried telling CCE its a 4.3 film even though its not to see if that makes a difference and it seems not to?

So the only thing i have noticed is that on my DVD player when i try to go to Video setup i get the option of selecting 4.3 Letter box, 16.9 Letter box but i cant select them i get a symbol meaning NO restricted (even though i told Ifoedit to remove u-OPS)

so does anyone have any ideas

vcdmad@aol.com

[auenf]

not sure exactly what you mean by double widescreen, so can you provide a frame capture?

Enf...

[FamousPerson]

Just a guess, but you may be incorrectly identifying a 4:3 movie as 16:9. Many widescreen movies are 4:3. That is, they have black bars encoded into the video. If you re-author something like this as 16:9, your player will think it's anamorphic, and it will stretch it out and add more black to the top and bottom.

Use DVD2AVI to open your movie, and if it says 4:3, then it's 4:3 regardless of whether or not the movie is widescreen.

Also, in Maestro, if you are working with 4:3, set it to 4:3, not 16:9 Pan/scan.

[roach76]

You can change a movie from 4:3 to 16:9. You just have to clip the black borders out of the video stream in your encoder before you encode, which then brings the aspect ratio to 16:9