aramh
30th September 2002, 09:15
Letterbox with TMPGEnc and Sony DVD Player
I'm having trouble getting my VCD's to play at 16x9 on a stanalone DVD player. I had MPEG-2 files on my computer which I converted to Divx. When I converted them, they were stretched to full 720x480, so in VirtualDub I resized the actual video to 720x405 and letterboxed the rest of the space.
Later I put these episodes on VCD and used TMPGEnc 2.58 to do so (I burned them with Nero 5.5 to VCD). Essentially Nero and TMPGEnc did a fine job; the VCD's play fine on my computer DVD player and play in my friend's Sony DVD player. However, when I put them in my friend's player, it plays them at full screen, cutting off the edges. I really want to get these VCD's to play at 16x9. I normally wouldn't ask for help on such a mundane task.
I've tried everything I can think of:
Changing the source aspect ratio to 16x9
Center (Keep Aspect Ratio) (it kept the aspect ratio of 720x405 and
only recorded the middle of the screen.)
Centering with a custom size
Clipping the frame (adding black bars in TMPGEnc)
When I used the custom size tool, I noticed that the black bars could be eliminated by resizing the video to full screen. If I could make the black bars a part of the video, then the DVD player would not be able to hide them. Any advice would be very helpful. Thank you.
I'm having trouble getting my VCD's to play at 16x9 on a stanalone DVD player. I had MPEG-2 files on my computer which I converted to Divx. When I converted them, they were stretched to full 720x480, so in VirtualDub I resized the actual video to 720x405 and letterboxed the rest of the space.
Later I put these episodes on VCD and used TMPGEnc 2.58 to do so (I burned them with Nero 5.5 to VCD). Essentially Nero and TMPGEnc did a fine job; the VCD's play fine on my computer DVD player and play in my friend's Sony DVD player. However, when I put them in my friend's player, it plays them at full screen, cutting off the edges. I really want to get these VCD's to play at 16x9. I normally wouldn't ask for help on such a mundane task.
I've tried everything I can think of:
Changing the source aspect ratio to 16x9
Center (Keep Aspect Ratio) (it kept the aspect ratio of 720x405 and
only recorded the middle of the screen.)
Centering with a custom size
Clipping the frame (adding black bars in TMPGEnc)
When I used the custom size tool, I noticed that the black bars could be eliminated by resizing the video to full screen. If I could make the black bars a part of the video, then the DVD player would not be able to hide them. Any advice would be very helpful. Thank you.