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Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - May 5 2008 : 7:05AM
I'm into making my own DVDs, but I've found a problem. I need to put some widescreen WMVs onto disk, but none of my programs will do the job properly. I've got both MAGIX and Roxio 7. MAGIX will do widescreen, but it takes 8+ hours to do about 20 or 30 minutes in WMV format (!!!!), whilst my Roxio is really quick with WMVs but wont do different picture ratios. Try to do anything other than square pictures with Roxio 7 and it just squashes the picture up. So, is there a program out there which will do WMVs quick like Roxio, but will also do different picture ratios like widescreen? Will later Roxios do it, or maybe Nero? Or is there a program on the market that I've overlooked?
Thanks. :)
Robert
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My past is a foreign country. Most things are different there, including word usage.
503 Posts
12/06
Posted - May 5 2008 : 10:28AM
I use Corel's (InterVideo) WinDVD Creator II (don't like the changes they made to Creator III) and it will encode widescreen WMV files but it produces a screen image that places black borders above and below the image within the default image ratio.
I've never tried to change that image ratio setting, since I display the DVDs on a standard TV screen and don't want to 'chop off' the right and left hand edges. There may be a way to change that setting, but I doubt it.
I suggest you post your question on one of the Forums at http://www.cdfreaks.com/
If those guys don't have an answer, there probably isn't one.
Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - May 6 2008 : 10:12AM
Yep, that's what I meant about converting to widescreen, allowing the DVD creator to write the black bands to the disk rather than squashing the picture up into box form like Roxio 7 does. I'll check it out! :) Anymore out there that will do MAGIX's job without the loooong wait for decoding?
Robert
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My past is a foreign country. Most things are different there, including word usage.
503 Posts
12/06
Posted - May 6 2008 : 11:09AM
Just for the hell of it, after seeing that Mojo was using xxx.WMV files, I dusted off my old Windoze Movie Maker (talk about buggy programs) and did a test using some xxx.WMV widescreen footage as input.
Bottom line, Movie Maker processed the encoding at speed ( a bit more than 1 minute to encode 1 minute of input).
But (ah...the big but) it 'squeezed' the frame, rather than 'mailboxing' it, which is what Mojo is trying to avoid.
BTW, I prefer to use MPEG2 footage whenever possible, so I use the WinDVD Creator II program to convert WMV files to MPEG2 files. I've also found a way to convert xxx.VOB files to MPEG2 files. It's the only DVD creator program I've found that will 'open' a XXX.VOB file.



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