Re: DVDSP DVDs only cropped or squished in certain players

Hi! Thank you for responding.

I will look in the player set-up, but my concern is that when we send it to festivals, they wont be able to see it properly, and will chuck it out-right if the player needs to be adjusted. Yes, I did encode 16:9 but not sure about p/s- I only tried it in dvdsp because I was ruling things out.

Here is part of the log info from the compression:

Stream Type: MPEG-2 Video Elementary
Frame Dimensions: 720x480
Frame Rate: 29.970030 progressive, pulldown from 23.976025
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Video Format: NTSC / SMPTE 170M
Chroma Format: 4:2:0
GOP Pattern: 12/3 closed IBB
Rate Control: 2-pass VBR 3700000 bps target, 7500000 bps max
Motion Estimation: +l2orig+l0mbloop+smoothing
Search Range: 16x16
RD Optimization: +fast+dct+mode
Flags: 0x2
Visual Masking: on
Intra DC Precision: 8-bit
Quant Scale Mode: auto
Intra VLC Mode: auto
Coef Scan Mode: auto
Quant Matrix: 1
Segment Type: last

When I letter box it though, it gets letter boxed on my 16:9 television, so it's squished- and thats with my TV being set to view 16:9. I can zoom in on my tv and it fits fine, but now it's slightly pixelated, and that's also another thing I don't want to have to have a judge mess around with at a festival. Or is there always some version of that, and it's acceptable?

Thanks again.