Aspect Ratio changing during burn

[Mr_E]

Sorry about the subject content of my previous post.

I am getting dvd's and avi's to mpg without any prob. when I play the mpg's on my pc they are in the right aspect ratio, wide screen. When I burn them to vcd with Nero the aspect ratio squishes up into what looks like 1:1, not wide screen. I have tried converting to bin and cue with vcdgear, in the hopes of burning with cdr-win, however, I receive the error "source file could not be opened or accessed". Is there another way to burn these mpg's to vcd and stay in the wide screen format?
Thank You

[DeXT]

Could you specify what aspect ratio settings are you using when encoding the movie (both source and destination)?

From reading your message I think you could be using 16:9 as destination aspect ratio, which is wrong for VCDs since VCDs do not support anamorphic. The VCD burning software probably knows this and changes aspect ratio to legal one (4:3). If that's the case, you'll have to select 1:1 as source aspect ratio (mandatory for AVIs since AVIs only have square pixels) and 4:3 as destination (this will add black stripes), along with "full screen (keep aspect ratio)" in advanced tab.

[Mr_E]

That is the answer. You are right. That is exactly what I have been doing.
Thank you very much.
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