TRAVELMAN Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 Hello again all, My quest for excellence in the DVD world continues....basically I'm trying to change a 16:9 widescreen DVD rip to 4:3 (checked the DVD only 16:9 aspect-no option for 4:3) (older tv & I prefer 4:3) by using DixxtoDVD (free version) & changing the aspect to 'force 4:3'. Firstly I rip all files (file mode to their own esktop folder) to a folder, open folder, highlight all files, click 'open' which puts all the files (all VOB, 5 files in total) in to DixxtoDVD, hit 'convert', says 25 minutes. Happily carries on, gets to last 5 seconds & suddenly the 5 seconds is shown as a semi complete green progress 'bar' & goes VERY slowly. The programme is still encoding/analysing at the same speed but the progress bar is VERY slow & stuck on 5 seconds (all be it moving very slowly). Gave up as it had taken 1 1/2 hours (got 640 odd MB on system & 20 GB hard drive). My aim was to then convert to an image with IMAGETOOL & re-burn using decrpter/imageburn to DVD & hey presto, 4:3 aspect!! 2 questions....A)-Am I doing this completely wrong....??! -Or will it take loads of time & will work-leave overnight?? Thanks again! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacoz Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 Can't you tell you player to play the disc in 4:3 and not letterbox it ? Or are you tring to squash the picture horizontally - thus fitting 4:3 but making everything in the picture proportionally thinner ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAVELMAN Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 Can't you tell you player to play the disc in 4:3 and not letterbox it ? Or are you tring to squash the picture horizontally - thus fitting 4:3 but making everything in the picture proportionally thinner ? Zacos-will try that! Never did work out my DVD controls.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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