I'm a long time user of VS and MF and so have had my fair share of trials of tribulations of encoding in MPEG2 format.
I've just bought a Hauppauge NovaTV-HD-S2 TV card, which is basically a DVB-S tuner card and allows HD reception of satelite channels. The bundled software can write the MPEG stream to HDD and thus it can be imported successfully into VS11+. The encoding broadcast by BBCHD is MPEG4 H.264 1440x1080 50hz, which as a compliant HD codec in anamorphic 16:9.
The problem is that VS11+ (and MF6+) both recognise the file as 4:3 and not 16:9.
When I then try and re-encode the file to AVCHD or MPEG2 HD, it basically creates black bars either side of the picture - as far as I can tell it is creating a 16:9 file from a 4:3 footage.
I've encountered something similar with MPEG2 material recorded on a DVD-RAM recorder with mixed 4:3 and 16:9 material - the way round this was to use DVD-Patcher to re-write the header and the 16:9 flag.
I don't know of any equivalent software for H.264. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this issue either within VS or using a third party application?
BBC HD via Hauppauge NovaTV-HD-S2 and VS11+
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