Hi Everyone out there

I hope someone may be able to help with this very annoying prob.

I am trying to back-up most of my dvd collection, all of which are in
widescreen (16:9) format. DVD2AVI reports 16:9 format PAL 25fps
movie. When it is finished frameserving, the movie has reverted
to 4:3 normal format. I have re-formatted my HD, re-installed Win XP
pro and all related ripping S/W. The first movie I backed up worked
perfect, but subsequent back-up's revert to 4:3. Has anyone had this
problem and found a solution?

Thanks in advance for any help U may be able 2 offer

Iron Man 2:confused:

What programs are you using?

Hi

Smart Ripper 2.41 - to rip the movie
DVD2AVI 1.73 - for frameserving
TMPEGEnc 2.58 - to create mpeg2 stream

I think the prob could be smart ripper, as when I load the .m2v
file into DVD2AVI, it displays at 4:3

Smart Ripper just rips it doesn't alter the stream. I would think that the problem was in TMPGEnc where you have not selected the correct aspect ratio.

Hi again

Don't think the problem is TMPEGEnc, I have selected the 16:9 aspect
ratio. The prob seems to be between ripping the movie and using DVD2AVI. I have tried DVDDecryptor to rip the movie, but I get same results with the aspect ratio. Is there another prog that can do the same as DVD2AVI?

I'm pretty sure its tmpegenc as well because I have done the same thing many times on accident. There are 2 places to change your aspect ratio. I think setting it to 16x9 is actually wrong. I think it should be set to 1:1 vga or something like that. I can't remember the real settings. I always try it, and look at the preview, notice its wrong and then change the settings. I never bother writing it down. CCE makes things much easier.

As I said earlier, The first time I ripped a DVD (Lord of the Rings) and opened the .m2v file with DVD2AVI, the aspect ratio was correctly displayed at 16:9. Subsequent rips alway display at 4:3 in DVD2AVI

Can't see that what DVD2AVI says would make any difference.. At the end of the day the stream is always 720x576/480.

If DVD2AVI says it is 4:3, but you know it is 16:9, then it is 16:9 and this is what you set it up as when encoding.

Thanks for all your help, it is apreciated.

Have re-formatted a HD, re-installed Win xp pro and all ripping progs.

First rip (Harry Potter) has worked perfect, displays at 16:9 and encodes at 16:9. Then tried Pretty Woman for a second rip, reverts back to only displaying and encoding at 4:3. I was wondering if this Vfp thingy file could cause any probs?

When you import the D2V into TMPGEnc if it selects 4:3 instead of 16:9, just change it.

The problem happens before it gets to TMPGEnc.

It happens after the vob's have been transfered to HD and opening them with dvd2avi. dvd2avi will state it is 16:9 format when u save the project to .d2v file, but it's apperance on screen is a squashed 4:3 format. When the d2v file is imported into tmpgenc, it don't matter what aspect ratio u select, it always givs 4:3.

This is giving me real grief, feel like throwing the pc through the windae

I just encoded a 4:3 D2V in TMPGEnc as 16:9 works fine.. well except for the fact that it really was supposed to be 4:3. I just changed the input and output settings from 4:3 to 16:9.

The appearance on screen from what? What did you open the .d2v with that you were able to see it in 4x3? The only program that I would open it with is Tmpegenc and that will show it to you in 4x3 because it is set too.

I opened the ripped vob's (Pretty Woman, using dvddecrypter) with dvd2avi. This is where the aspect ratio turns into a squashed 4:3. If u don't mind, can I send u an e-mail with screen captures to try and illustrate the problem better

Cheers IM

Don't worry about DVD2AVI's preview, TMPGEnc's preview or any of that. Only worry about the final output.

DVD2AVI displays the stream at actual size 720x576/480 and as said TMPGEnc displays 4:3 despite what the aspec ratio of the output is.

well I guess we better close this thread guy's.

Thanks for all your help and advice

Many thanks Iron Man 2