Resizing 480x480 to 352x480

[SVCD4Me]

Hi all,

I'm re-encoding NTSC SVCD's for DVD and I just have one little question. The SVCD's were all encoded at 480x320? with borders on top and bottom. I'm using the following AVS...

LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("G:\DVD2SV~1\DVD2AV~1.D2V")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\SimpleResize\SimpleResize.dll")
Crop(0,100,-0,-100)
SimpleResize(352,280)
Addborders(0,100,0,100)
ResampleAudio(44100)

Now for the question. If I crop 100(or 80) from top/bottom, then resize from there does it throw my aspect ratio off? It seems to me that this is correct, but it wouldn't be the first time I was way off. The movie looks right to me.

[seewen]

You can use FitCD ( http://shh.dvdboard.de/ ) to know how to resize correctly (with aspect ratio, max Vertical resolution, etc..

But there's way to put SVCD on DVD, without re-encoding. You just need to patch the mpeg with DVD patcher ( http://kickme.to/DVDPatcher ), and then put the patched-mpegs on DVD-R with "DVD Workshop" ).

I know only 1 tutorial, and it's in french ;-) ( http://dvdr.fr.free.fr/DVD-SVCD/DVD-SVCD.htm ) , but you can easily found plenty others with Google.

I didn't personally use it, but friendS reported it working very well.

EDIT : No Need to look in Google, Doom9 already has a Guide ;-) http://www.doom9.org/mpg/svcd2dvdr.htm