widescreen

[cole]

i was just watching my first vcd movie that i made
and i have notice that the black bars on top and bottom are a lot bigger than the original dvd, why? i have a regular tv (not widescreen)so i guess i will always have those bars but can they be smaller?
thank you

[setarip]

If you made it using TMPGEnc, experiment with the various "Video Arrange Method" settings under the "Advanced" tab...

If you made it solely using NERO, what you see is what you get...

[admin]

Have a look at this little guide on ensuring the proper aspect ratio when encoding a VCD/SVCD in TMPGEnc :

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/tmpgenc_vcd.html#crop

[Mark Madness]

What might have happened is that you may have encoded the movie at the default aspect ratio of DVD which is 1.5:1 unlike a television's aspect ratio of 1.33:1. This ends up giving a more horizontally stretched picture hence the bigger black bars.

[benderman]

@Mark Madness: A 1.5:1-DVD? DVDs can only have 4:3 or 16:9.

[Mark Madness]

I understand that. You are correct for standard televisions. However, if you rip a dvd and then encode it on a program such as Flask MPEG, it recognizes the video at a default resolution of 720 x 480 aka 1.5:1. Of course this isn't the proper aspect ratio to properly view the movie. I don't exactly know why it does this.