Aspect Ratio

[Ac3Dc3]

Hi-

I'm trying to encode a movie with CCE-SP 2.64, but there is a problem with the encoded .mpv file's aspect ratio.
My source is a PAL DivX .avi file (not frameserving) with no audio. It has a resolution of 704x384 and therefore an aspect ratio of 1.83:1 [11:6], almost 1.77:1 [16:9]. I am trying to convert it to a PAL DVD MPEG-2 file using stand-alone CCE-SP. These are my settings:
Output Files: Video (no audio)
Video Encode Mode: MPEG-2 (elementary stream, multipass VBR)
Add Sequence End Code
Progressive Frames
Linear Quantizer Scale
DVD Compliant
Luminence Level: 16-235
Intra DC Precision: 9 (low bitrate movie)
Timecode: 00:00:00:00
Matrices: Very Low Bitrate
I have used all the aspect ratio settings, and get the same result. The .mpv file is 720x576 but it has black borders around the image - border like when a 4:3 screen plays a 16:9 video, but slightly larger and smaller borders at the side of the video aswell. So when i play this on my DVD player the picture is like a 2.35:1 DVD.
On 16:9 DVDs i have ripped the picture fills the entire 720x576(PAL) frame (this is an example of anamorphic video right?) and then the dvd player stretches the picture. So i think my .mpv files need to have those types of frames.

Is there something i'm doing wrong/need to do ? All and any help appreciated,

Ac3Dc3.:devil:

[Matthew]

You need to frameserve...Q62 in the DVD2SVCD forum Q&A has a great bit on writing avs scripts for converting avis to SVCD. Just use 720 for the horizontal resolution instead of the 480 that the Q&A specifies.

[Ac3Dc3]

Cheers Matthew, i guess your right, i'll have to use AviSynth. It's just i thought that a program that costs that much would have the ability to resize a couple frames... where are my dollars going ?

Thanks for your help,

Ac3Dc3.

[RB]

Use FitCD (http://shh.dvdboard.de/) (free) to do the proper resizing. It will generate an AVISynth script for you. It's the most accurate tool in this area that I'm aware of.