16:9 - 4:3 size different in each program?

[mrdutchie]

Hi there,
I'm kind off lost with this and not sure where to post it.
I have a Divx File that's 512x288
When I play the file in Mediaplayer it shows at 16:9 format (what it is) but when I try to play it into another player then it shows as 4:3, when I'm converting it to a MPG then the result is also 4:3
Not sure if that have something to do with a header.
Is there a program that you can changes those settings without re-encodig the whole file so that I won't loose the quality.

[DJ Bobo]

What do you mean by "another player"? if you mean PowerDVD, it's very simple: PowerDVD don't show DivX videos in their right aspect, it shows them always in 4:3, even if they are in 16:9 or 2,35:1 (weird I know)

Your file is right, if you wanna get correct MPEG File, choose the right properties in TMPGEnc, so it produces black bars for you (try for yourself! don't ask, how can I do that, set different options till you get what you want)

[mrdutchie]

Thanks. I kind of figured that one out that Power DVD doesn't play
right.

Playing the whole day with TMPEG and not really happy with some setting, and can't figure out where to make those changes.
the DivX quality is perfect, but after encoding a part in TMPEG it's getting a little bit blurry, but the most is the squares that are coming up. Still playing with all the settings. any suggestions?

Whole reason I'm doing is that Ulead DVD Workshop doesn't support the right settings for Divx either, so I need to convert to MPG

[DJ Bobo]

I hope you're into AviSynth a little bit, make an AVS script with the following content:

AviSource("path\filename.avi")
AddBorders(0,48,0,48)
BicubicResize(352,288,0,0.6)
ConvertToRGB

That's if you wanna make PAL VCD. If you wanna make others things like DVD or SVCD, replace the resizing values with your desired ones.

PAL SVCD: 480x576
PAL DVD: 720x576

NTSC VCD: 352x240
NTSC SVCD: 480x480
NTSC DVD: 720x480

You can know open this script in TMPGEnc and encode to MPG as you want.

[mrdutchie]

thanks. I will give this a shot

[theReal]

Whole reason I'm doing is that Ulead DVD Workshop doesn't support the right settings for Divx either, so I need to convert to MPG.

Better convert it to mpeg2 then, using a high bitrate and variable bitrate in 2-pass (if ulead dvd workshop can handle that, but it should!). There should not be any blocks then because mpeg2 with a bitrate of, say 6000-8000 is better in quality than divx.

[mrdutchie]

Well, I'm converting 4 hours on 1 DVD with Ulead DVD Workshop
and the quality is perfect.

Found out that when it's done with creating the Vob files
and EDIT with IFOEDIT and change the 4:3 into 16:9 and then it shows correctly without any problems.
So for now I can go ahead and Convert for a couple of weeks all the Episode for Stargate :D