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9th August 2008, 15:34 | #1 | Link |
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Cropping a 4:3 DVD to 16:9
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I've got a few DVDs that are actually 16:9, but are encoded as 4:3 (they have big black borders added to the top and bottom). This is a problem since my DVD player refuses to play them as anything but 4:3, and so adds black borders to the left and right on my 16:9 plasma, effectively meaning I am using a little more than a quarter of my screen. So, my question, is there any easy way to re-encode these movies, having cropped the top and bottom (the black borders) to make them 16:9? My experience in encoding DVDs is limited to DVDShrink atm Sorry if this question has already been asked (I would imagine it to be a common problem?). I couldn't find it doing a search... |
9th August 2008, 16:09 | #2 | Link |
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Between your DVD player or your TV you should have a setting to display the disk properly without re-encoding it. If that doesn't work for you, I'm sure someone will offer a method to re-encode it, but it's not something with which I'm familiar.
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9th August 2008, 16:35 | #3 | Link |
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A script in avisynth like this should do it.
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DirectShowSource("MOVIE.M2V") Crop(0,60,0,-60) |
9th August 2008, 20:06 | #5 | Link |
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Hi! Sounds like you have a standalone player that automatically upconverts the DVD output. If so, for these particular DVDs, you may not be able to change the plasma's settings until you set the player to 480p (or 480i)... |
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Yeah, use DVD Rebuilder as dialysis1 says. It has a setting to do just what you want. Or use the zoom on your remote control to make them fill the screen from right to left. They won't look any better than that (and may look worse) by being reencoded to 16:9. |
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10th August 2008, 10:40 | #10 | Link |
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you will need to
a. crop + b. resize/blowup height + c. reencode, where steps b. and c. are lossy, so generally speaking : don't do it example calc: http://resizecalc.somestuff.org/inde...css=&doit=true
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I think he means a "program" one can run locally without Internet connection to your server.
Of course one can install Apache+PHP (XAMPP) to run your calculator program locally, but the normal user most probably won't do that... Maybe a small Java program/applet would be a good and platform-independent solution
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10th August 2008, 21:11 | #14 | Link |
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But i do actually prefer a 20k platform-independent script , there should be plenty of 'standalone solutions' with some googling thought.
there are things like http://wapache.sourceforge.net/ which can make standalone php apps reality, if somebody wants to give that a go..., no i'am not doing it.
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Copy the DVD to your hard disk and then using IFOEdit open the IFO file called "VTS_01_0.IFO". Open the video title (icon of a bit of film) by double clicking on it, check to see if the the box 'automatic letterbox' is ticked and or 'letter boxed(top&bottom cropped)' , if they are untick and leave only the top box 'automatic pan and scan' ticked - save and do the same for all ifo files in the collection. Burn it to a rewritable and check it out. Might well be a simple solution |
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dat720, if you come up with something cool, post here;
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=133557 (sorry for hijacking this thread) netmask: i believe the conversion is from 16:9LB to 16:9FHA, where ifoedit wont really help.
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Picking up on what Smok3 said
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