Paging the DVD-isti

Right, how can you re-code, re-author, whatever to get rid of letterbox
format and produce an image which would view acceptably on an ordinary
4:3 telly?

The original is made for more than ordinary widescreen - it's more than
16:9 by the looks of it.


I've tried Nero recode, which looked like it would allow me to do that,
but it turned out mpeg4's, which are no use to me.

Any suggestions?

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bit of a bugger that to do, try TEMPGen

www.dvdrhelp.com might give you a few ideas

 

Buy a new telly?

 

I'd try TMPGEnc.

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Not yet. There's plenty of life in the old Nokia 28.
Next one will be widescreen, but no point unless it's at least a 32.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Ta muchly.

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I think Super DVD Ripper can do this; you can specify the format when you
rip the DVD.
http://www.dvdtodivx.net/index.htm. Trial version available.

 

You must have a big room.

 

You're talking about completely re-encoding the MPG2 files along with
more than a little editing thrown in, too - and a loss of image quality
as the 16:9 picture is still only 720x576 so you're going to loose a lot
of quality as you'll be effectively zooming in to a digitised picture

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Whenever you encode a DVD you specify whether it's 4:3 or 16:9 -
however, that doesn't crop the image or anything else, it just tells the
DVD player how the file should be viewed

Re-encode a 16:9 as a 4:3 and all you get is very tall, very thin people

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Whinging Courier

Nope. It comfortably fills a corner. Bear in mind my bins make it look
approx 25% smaller than it really is, so afaic it's a 20+" ish.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember mb

I'll give that a go after. Itm, I've found DivXtoDVD which deals with
VOBs and can force aspect ratios. I'm doing one now, so I'll see shortly
just what kind of unplayable mess comes out of it.

What I need next is some package that'll allow me to brighten up the
movie - it seems to have lost a lot of lightness.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Aha. Going from the preview pane on this, yep, there's some tall
thinness going on, but at about the right setting for the telly to be
able to normalise it if I set it to display 16:9.

The bugger is, the original DVD letterbox image, when zoomed on the DVD
player, is fine on 4:3 - properly screenfilling - but there's a bloody
annoying pic-in-pic of the whole scene permanently up on the left.

Whatever; ideally I'd like to be able to trim the top and bottom and
only show the middle 2/3 of the original. As a letterbox, it's too
small.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I don't mind a loss of quality - figgit, can't be any worse than 1/2
speed VHS I've been used to for years.

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Dave

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TEMPGenc can do that as well, it can crop the black lines out of the
picture as well so when you enlarge it it fills the screen with
picture not the box

 

You need to crop the image, and that will probably require video editing
software

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What film is it?

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Master and Commander.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I must find an mpeg2 codec for it. I d/l'd that months ago but the mpeg2
codec has expired.

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Dave

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VirtualDub MPEG2, if you insist. You have a choice of either stretching the
image to 4:3, or cropping the edges off, or a bit of both. And you'll
introduce all sorts of concatenation artefacts, so it'll look shit.

Really, I'd either put up with the letterboxing (that's the image aspect the
producers of the DVD wanted you to see after all), or get a widescreen
telly.