fibrizo

Note: I always skip encoding the audio on the first pass, I didn't add it to the guide to keep it as simple as possible (least amount of things going wrong.) once you get the basics working you can easily disable the audio on the first run... The fastest way (the one I use, is just to have no audio on the first pass (even saves the effort of copying the audio.

as for the black bars, don't bother. It's a waste of space and encoding to encode those black bars...

here's the simple solution... I've posted it before. but maybe I should add it to the main guide...

Say you have a widescreen source... lets say 480 x 208 or something like that...

Your final width should always be 320.

So take 320 and divide it by the width of your widescreen film.

which in this case is 480 so

320/480

This gives 0.6666667

now multiply by your movie's height, in this case it's 208

0.666666667 x 208

This gives us 138.666 or 139 rounded...


so our resized film would be 320x139, however...

Divx requires that your width and heights for your film be mutiples of 16...

So divide 139 by 16

139/16 is 8.6875

Which rounds to 9

So 9 x 16 gives 144

So you should set the height to 144

so your final film size is 320 x 144...

If you are following the guide I wrote, just enter that into step 1 instead of 320x240.

(Note this does do some stretching of the picture, but it's basically unoticable... If you downloaded that test file I put up, it's encoded this way and slightly stretched, but not noticably at all...) If you really want to be anal about it, it's possible to correct it completely and just put black space into the file, but that takes alot more calculation.