Skinny people

[Jasond79]

Hi

I'm new to this forum and mkv converting and some videos I have converted seem to display the people tall and skinny ?

Is this a common problem and if so how can this be resolved etc. ?

Sorry if this has already been mentioned before.

Cheers

Jay

[Woodstock]

You can find some help on this issue by searching the forum for "aspect ratio". Quoting Mike from one such message:

On DVD aspect ratio is stored in two places - in the MPEG stream itself and in IFO headers. Rarely, these values do not match. MakeMKV doesn't change MPEG stream and puts aspect ratio from MPEG stream into MKV container for consistency. You surely can edit MKV headers afterwards and change aspect ratio in container, but most players would ignore it and use one from MPEG instead. There are tools to change MPEG headers but for that you would need to demux MKV file, patch MPEG headers, and mux MKV again.

All of this only happens if the DVD disc was encoded incorrectly in a first place.

[Jasond79]

Thanks very much I will give this a try

[Jasond79]

Turned out it was only the 1 video which had an odd ratio and all the rest are fine, must be the way I encoded it originally.

Cheers

Jay