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DeaDLocK
25th June 2007, 17:24
Hi guys,

I am ripping sections from a whole load of XviDs I have, all in various aspect ratios and resolutions. Some have black bars in them, some don't. Basically it's quite a collection of differently-encoded files.

What I want to ultimately do is to merge all the scenes that I have ripped into one DVD title, and I want this to fill the screen when played on a standard DVD player on a PAL 16:9 widescreen LCD TV, with no change in aspect ratio or no appearance of black bars as each scene fades into the next.

I am happy to crop off all the black bars and crop, resize and enlarge where necessary to acheive the desired result.

I am using VirtualDubMod to extract each scene from the XviDs (and doing all the resizing/cropping/enlarging at this stage), and then using TMPGenC XPress to join and convert the uncompressed video rips into one final DVD-ready MPEG2 file.

My question simply is this: What is a good 1:1 pixel dimension I should use? What width by what height?

This is the resolution that I will crop/resize/enlarge to in VDubMod so that all my exported scenes are in this same exact resolution, and then can be converted to DVD-format using TMPGenc.

Remember I want to play the finished product through a standard DVD player on a standard PAL 16:9 widescreen TV.

Thanks for any guidance.

Guest
25th June 2007, 18:17
What are these XviD files and where did you get them?

DeaDLocK
25th June 2007, 18:25
Family videos from various folks. Some HD, some SD, some digital, some rips from tape, some 16:9, some 4:3 etc. Basically, a minefield!

DeaDLocK
25th June 2007, 18:32
Okay, I did some additional (newbie) research.

If I crop the video down to an aspect ratio of 16:9 and then resize it to 720x576 in VDubMod (even though the raw 720x576 video will look really weird when played back), and then convert it to the DVD-compliant MPEG2 file and specify the 16:9 setting, would this be a good way of doing it?

Thanks!