Amorphic SVCD with a non-anamorphic DVD source

[mibanezm]

I think this would be an interesting feature in DVD2SVCD. When the source is 16:9 non anamorphic, I do the following editing in the Avisynth script file:


#avisynth
#For NTSC you should crop(0,60,720,360)
LoadPlugin("C:\ARCHIV~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("F:\DVD\SRC\DVD2AVI_PROJECT_FILE.d2v")
crop(0,72,720,432) #Remove 72 lines (black borders) on top/bottom (PAL)
BicubicResize(480,576,0,0.75) #PAL resizing


You will get an anamorphic picture this way, keeping the correct aspect ratio (interesting, if you have a widescreen TV).

[RadicalEd]

yeah that would be a cool feature, unfortunately too many good movies are letterboxed and not anamorphic (end of eva & death&rebirth... 2 is too many ;) ) so you'd have to do this yourself anyway and I'm sure bicubic resize yeilds better quality than a widescreen tv's zoom function.

[mibanezm]

You are right, of course it does!

My anamorphic SVCD of "Mighty Aphrodite" looks much better than the original DVD, zoomed by TV! :)

[Arianos]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22580