Picture squished when rendered to MPEG-2

Amr Rahmy said:
it wasn't off to the degree that the program did not display it in 16:9, but it was a few pixels off, people faces elongated and such. when you leave it up to the program to scale and calculate, you are going to get inconsistencies. if the container had similar info as mkv, mov or mp4 you can state the exact pixel dimension and the video player is going to provide more consistent results.
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There's no other way to do it. DVDs aren't square pixel.

Which software player(s) did you watch this in?
 
Amr Rahmy said:
i also found a couple of 90s 1.85 dvds with the wrong 16:9 aspect were the picture is not letterbox enough and the picture a bit elongated that does not actually play that well in a dvd player.
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Any DVD where the picture is 1.85:1 is letterboxed.

If this is really from the '90s (there aren't that many which are), then it probably wasn't even widescreen anwyay, and instead was matted 4:3.
 
Amr Rahmy said:
when you put an exact dimension in the container, the image is corrected to the aspect ratio before scaling, so the amount of error of the aspect ratio is not multiplied by the amount of scaling. so it could remain less than a pixel which would render the movie in the correct aspect ratio.
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Amr, all video on any DVD is either 4:3 or it's 16:9. If there's a movie with a wider aspect ratio, black bars are part of the picture. But the video video file itself is either 4:3 or 16:9. There is no video with the aspect ratio of 1.85:1, 2.35:1, or anything other than 4:3 or 16:9 on a DVD. Those are the only two choices.

Thus:

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A 2.35:1 image in a 16:9 frame. This is the video on the DVD. All the DVD player or any software player sees is 16:9 video, not 2.35:1.
 
Amr Rahmy said:
for the 400th time, i know
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Honestly, Amr, you have not indicated this.


but also, when you let the video player handle the files you get inaccurate aspect ratio by a few pixels. pop a 5 random dvds(from 90s-00s) and try it for yourself.
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With DVD, you have no choice, '90s, '00s, or today. In NTSC, it's 720x480, period. In PAL, it's 720x576. The only difference between 4:3 and 16:9 is pixel aspect ratio.


on the other hand if you use a video container and specify the right resolution, you get an accurate aspect ratio.
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Which doesn't help you for DVD, the point of this thread and the OP's questions.
 
computer video players don't display the video in the correct aspect ratio, that's normal and it's the OPs question. DID YOU READ IT.<- that's not a question.
 
Except they do, or should, and always have in my experience, IF they are designed to play a DVD. And even if they didn't, all the talk about "containers" and other formats doesn't help, because the OP wants DVD.
 
the talk about containers was not directed to the op, since i already told the op that it's normal and he already tried and managed to make the dvd. and 'they do' and 'should' is like the difference between the earth and the sun.
 
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