Is 16:9 supported by SVCD ??

[superbob]

Hello, I am trying to recode a movie from xvid to SVCD to be played on my standalone, and I have problems with the aspect ratio.

As the original AVI is 16:9 (but as we all know, AVI works 1:1), I made 2 scripts in avisynth, one to convert it to 16:9 (just stretching the original to a SVCD supported size), and other converting it to 4:3 (stretching and adding black bars on top and bottom to fill the gap between 16:9 and 4:3 to the SVCD supported size).

I tried both scripts with TMPGENC and CCE (2.67), the 4 resulting streams (2x 4:3 and 2x 16:9) played perfectly on software mpeg2 players on my PC (tried PowerDVD and WinDVD), but none of the 16:9 played OK on my standalone (the one coded with TMPGENC directly didn't play, and the CCE one played stretched, and with a "parkinson"-like movemente -don't know how to explain it-).

The output settings in both programs were 4:3 for 4:3 and 16:9 for 16:9.

I don't have another standalone to check if the problem is there or not, but i didn't find any guide that says 16:9 is supported in SVCD, so ... is 16:9 supported in the SVCD standard ?

Thanks.

[onesoul]

16:9 anamorphic as svcd subtitles are supported by some players and not others (like mine Toshiba SD210e). But I can say for the 2 or 3 movies (and some tests, I like to try :)) that I back up, I encoded as 16:9 anamorphic picture but I told dvd2svcd (cce) to put 4:3 flag. So in order to see the correct picture you set your TV to 16:9 (if your tv isn't widescreen) to add 2 black borders.

Salut