[Wylug-help] Re: VCD creation - wrong aspect ratio.

[Dave Fisher]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:42:04PM +0100, Simon Wood wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've ripped/encoded/burnt a VCD with a 16:9 aspect ratio and all is happy until Linux (VLC and Xine). However if I play the VCD on a cheapo hardware play, or with a Windows application, the picture is shown as 4:3 ratio - resulting in tall thin people.
>
> I used Kino to grab/edit/output mpeg stream and mkvcdfs to build the VCD image.
>
> Any suggestions as to what I might have missed to get the aspect ratio right?

If you have no other alternative, transcode can fix it, but it ought to
have the world record for interface inconsistency and manpage
unintelligibility.

Dave