1º problem: i tryed to transcode a tiny video file, and what a surprise when i see that the first seconds of files are skipped !

i also made a few test to see the diference when checking or not the 16:9 option in the gui
version.

1º: if 16:9 is checked, aspect ratio is keept, but wrongly! looks deformed, and there is something wrong with colors too.

2º: if 19:9 is not checked, scrren is fullfilled but quality is not very good…(im using high quality option already)

you can see the example here (1,8mb) :

http://ds5.fileflyer.com/d/52aa49d3-0c5b-469c-b…

here the same file done with batchdpg 1.60, maybe you want see the difference:
full conversion, much better definition, no color or size deformations:

http://ds7.fileflyer.com/d/726f171c-b71c-4a28-a…

The MPEG-4 codec used in your video is XviD, which we can’t support as it’s licensed under the GPL. As a result, I think libavcodec is using the generic MPEG-4 decoder to transcode it, which might be the cause of this strange behaviour.