DVD resize help needed

[Amit]

Hi,

I have a NTSC pure interlaced DVD. This DVD has a size of 704X480. In D2S v1.2.2b3 I choose lancoz resize for DVD output and my resultant DVD is now resized to 720X480 causing the edge of the movie as well as some text (appearing in the title and end credits of the DVD) to be at the edge of my TV while the original DVD has some margin.

I want to know the following:

Q1) Why do I need any kind of resize in my AviSynth script if I don't want to change the output size? If I remove the resize line from the AviSynth script and try to play this script in Windows Media I get errors. Why is resize needed?
Q2) What's the best way to keep the resultant (re-encoded) DVD to maintain the original DVD size i.e. 704X480. Can someone provide what I need to manually change in the AviSynth? I can choose Edit AviSynth as part of Video Encode to accomplish it manually.

Thank for your help.

Merry Christmas.
-Amit

[jsoto]

By now, 704x480/576 is not supported in D2S, so the programm is trying to resize to its known resolutions.

In any case, resizing a DVD from 704x480 to 720x480 does not change the AR of the screen, so you should see exactly the same in your TV. Why you don't, is something I cannot understand.

Q1) Yes, you can delete the resize statement. But, may be you have a problem with the color space. Try using ConvertToYUY2() at the end of the script
Even more, you can add in your AVISYNTH.INI a "filter" done with commented lines like the following one: (Please use at least one commented line, if not, D2S will delete the filter)
[AVISYNTH_noresize]
#0=BicubicResize(720,480,^b_value,^c_value)
#^b_value=0.00
#^c_value=0.60


And, for other encoding, just for saving bit_rate, I use the following one, which resizes to 704x576 unconditionally:

[AVISYNTH_BicubicResize_DVD_16_9_noresize_704x576_KISS]
0=Undot()
1=Deen()
2=BicubicResize(704,576,^b_value,^c_value)
^b_value=0.00
^c_value=0.60

jsoto