by Qyot27 » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:14 pm
If the videos are supposed to be 4:3, then there's nothing wrong - if they are 16:9, though, then set the aspect flag either in your encoding program to 16:9 or do it the manual way:
*Encode video as 4:3 - for ratios which cleanly equal 16:9, then the image should look 'fullscreen'; for ones which equal a different aspect ratio, find what height the video should be if the width is 848, taking mod16 into consideration for both the video portion AND the letterboxing, and add the appropriate letterboxing with either VirtualDub or Avisynth. You'll still want to have the width set at 720, though. During the encoding process, DO NOT allow the program to mux the video and audio together unless you set the AR with the encoder - this is more for convenience as ReStream only accepts .m2v files.
*Use ReStream to fix the AR of the .m2v from 4:3 to 16:9. Mux the fixed 16:9 file with the audio you plan to use and give the resultant .mpg to your DVD authoring program.