Can we change the FRAME size of a vcd or svcd ?

[ringo]

Hi,

I have a football highlight of 6 minutes and the frame size is 320x180

I am able to convert it to vcd 352x240 or svcd 480x480 but the image get streched vertically so not nice to look at.

Is there a way to have the frame size in vcd or svcd to stay like the original input file of 320x180.

I use Nero 5.5

thanks

[djidjo]

Get the FitCD (http://shh.dvdboard.de/fitcd.html) tool. It will make an AVISynth script to resize your picture preserving aspect ratio and adding black borders. You can then import this script in CCE to encode it. Otherwise, if you use TMPGEnc, there's a "preserve aspect ratio" in the resizing list IIRC.
Hope this helps
Djidjo

[Bubba]

Ringo,

If you use TMPGEnc, do the following:

1. Select settings on TMPGEnc and select the Advanced tab
2. Set "Source Aspect Ratio" to "1:1 (VGA)"
3. Set "Video Arrange Method" to "Center (Keep Aspect Ratio)"

This will tell TMPGEnc to preserve your resolution of 320x180, and create an output with borders. Otherwise, TMPGEnc will stretch your input as you had described.

Cheers,

P.S. By the way, welcome to the forum.

[ringo]

thanks I'll try your advices.

[ringo]

Hi guys,

I followed your advices to preserve the aspect ration of my file. I used tmpge and I was able to come to a 320x176 frame size.I create the file no problem it plays in my windows media player very satisfied with the result.....But I have a problem when I want to burn it with nero into a vcd format. it gives me the following error message (clicl on link)

http://www.weethet.nl/images/nero/nero_dragdrop_vcd_error.gif

I click on turn off standard compliance....

and the I'm able to burn the file to a cd. When I play it in my dvd player I have great sound quality, the image seem to be to the right frame size of 320x176 but I only see an image every 4or5 seconds because the rest looks like a fireworks of very large pixels. Any idea.

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I noticed that the format I mentioned in my original post is compatible for a wide screen TV. I tried it at a friend's house and in white screen the picture is perfect.

Until then have a good week end

[smiller667]

Nero seems to think that you produced a SVCD with 480x480 resolution - any chance that is correct?)

[djidjo]

seeing the screenshot you posted, it seems you have a correct SVCD mpeg, but you're trying to burn a VCD. Just choose a VCD project instead of SVCD and it should work.

Djidjo

[ringo]

Hi guys: A little update.

Using TMPGE I tried different settings. Altough my original frame size is 320x180 I tried this method that turn out to be perfect for my little football highlight.

I set the size of the file in the settings to VCD size of 352x288 I selected the the video arrange method CENTER (keep aspect ration)so I have an encoded mpeg file with a frame size of 352x288.

I burned it in nero but still received a similar error message

http://www.weethet.nl/images/nero/n...p_vcd_error.gif

I still selected the TURN OFF STANDARD COMPLIANCE tab and the result turned out to be great on my tv. I can watch it on my tv with a 320x180 frame size (gives a wide scren effect on a normal TV screen without stretching the image).

Thanks to you guys for putting me on the right track.

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QUESTIONS:
One thing I read about burning and encoding is that CD-RW are better suited for DVD reading for VCD or SVCD formats. CD-RW are read in a similar way than DVD on a dvd player. (Fact or Fiction?)

[Bubba]

Ringo,

About your last question... It depends on your DVD player. I have 6 different DVD players to play with (2 Sampo, 1 Apex, 1 Yamakawa, 1 Sony, 1 Norcent), and I found it varies between DVD players. I don't have other brand names like Toshiba, Pioneer, Philips, etc. so I don't have the correct acceptable sample.

Cheers,

[jshumate]

Well, it's true with an explanation. Basically, this got started because on some older DVD players, most notably some Sony players, they officially did not support CD-R or CD-RW discs. However, CD-RW discs did work on these players, even though they weren't supposed to. CD-RW discs reflect back at a wavelength that is closer to commercial CD blanks than CD-R discs do and for some players, it was close enough that they could play the discs. Most DVD players today support CD-R and CD-RW fine, so there's no real need to use CD-RW discs unless you want to.