newbie here: help! What i encoded into svcd doesnt show entirely on the tv

[forjononly]

okie, here are the specs of my avi
640 x 480
frame rate hovers abt 24.4 (so is that NTSC?)

here's what i did, i loaded the file into TMPEG and used the default svcd (PAL) setting, (i'm in Asia). So the end result is a PAL mpeg 2 file. I burned it to svcd using nero with setting to PAL and standard compliant, but when i watch on my dvd player, i noticed that i wasnt seeing the whole image, as in it seems to be cut off at the sides. Can anyone help me correct this?

[forjononly]

by the way, i've check the frame rate again with fitcd
it says its 23.976
guess its ntsc

[Wilbert]

By the way, i've checked the frame rate again with fitcd. It says its 23.976, guess its ntsc.

Yep.

i noticed that i wasnt seeing the whole image, as in it seems to be cut off at the sides.

That's called "overscan". Instead of crop[640x468] and resize[480x480] you should crop[640x468], resize[448x448] and add borders to end up with 480x480.

Or add borders in the beginning, thus add borders to end up with 648x480 and resize[448,448].

Use that program FitCD and play with it.

[forjononly]

Fitcd can do all that? alrite. Thx man