well i believe chainsaw ash has solved my encoding problem. but the downside is now that i have the correct par my subtitles no longer fit in the letterbox area. the original plan was to keep the subs totally out of the picture. but now it does not work this way. so i must go back and readjust all the subs to fit over the picture. originally i had chosen 16 for the font size. now i feel this may be too big. so my question is what is the standard font size used in widescreen 16:9 dvd,s because this is what i wish to use. thanks.