Need a GUI that allows filling out fullscreen for widescreen videos

[lilhobo]

Are there any GUIs that maintain the width of the widescreen BUT allowing users to change the AR in order to get fullscreen?

[JohnAStebbins]

Do you really mean change the AR? Or do you mean cropping and/or adding matting? HandBrake will allow you to change the AR or crop. It can't add matting. Check the 'Custom' anamorphic mode in picture settings.

[lilhobo]

i dont know what anamorphic means?!

but the black bans on the letterbox formats arent very nice......How can I tell the players or TV to fill out the black space?

[lilhobo]

yeah, well i only need what i need LOL

Still dont understand AR and "square" pixel etc.....so why cannot stretch them?? thats exactly what i need....on a big TV or any TV rather than squinting at a narrow picture

[setarip_old]

How can I tell the players or TV to fill out the black space? Select one of your TV's (or standalone DVD player's) "Zoom" settings...

[lilhobo]

LOL but many TVs are already in widescreen form!! which means if you expand 4:3 horizontally, the height comes out decent.

But the problem is on widescreen DVD, if you crop the image and reencode to XVID, it becomes even narrower vertically

720x576 WS becomes 720x306 sometimes

[setarip_old]

yes i would like to fill my big TV no matter how big anyones's butt isSo, have you tried my suggestion yet?

[lilhobo]

So, have you tried my suggestion yet?

zooming is looks to be a hard cropping of the sides, would prefer the WHOLE image even if the BUTTS look larger.

you would rather have "peripheral" vision with slight "lens" error than looking at a "pinhole"

[setarip_old]

I've tried very hard to understand you but, I have no idea what you are trying to say, in either this thread or other threads that you've recently started.

Hopefully, other members will be able to assist you...

[lilhobo]

I've tried very hard to understand you but, I have no idea what you are trying to say, in either this thread or other threads that you've recently started.

Hopefully, other members will be able to assist you...

LOL, if you didnt understand the initial question, why did you confuse the question by offering a solution?

Most new hardware TV, video players have the facility to upscale video to fill a screen, older models do not.

Sony vegas has the option to fill the screen by rescaling video with minimal loss.

How hard is it to understand that widescreen video comes in a Aspect ratio that doesnt fill the screen but displays black bands (letterbox).

Now we just need a high quality resampling eg Lanczos resampling

to fill out the black bands at the cost of slight focal error

[trevaaar]

So basically what you want is to distort the display aspect ratio so that widescreen images fit your fullscreen TV without cropping? That's not a 'slight focal error', that's going to mess up the image pretty badly. For 16:9 material that's a 33% aspect ratio error, for 2.35:1 material it's a whopping 76% error. Any GUI should be able to do this, just crop out the black bars and resize to 4:3, but it'll look ridiculous.

[setarip_old]

@lilhobo

I should have said, I've tried very hard to understand you but, as a result of your response to my suggestion, I have no idea what you are trying to say, in either this thread or other threads that you've recently started.

Hopefully, other members will be able to assist you...

[twazerty]

Why would you mess up the format of the movie?? It looks terrible. Fat people will look thin and thin people will look like a stick. A round ball will be a long totally not rount egg. Most tv's allow you to choose this kind of display. But I don't understand why you want to look at an image that is always wrong. This is the same as displaying stretched 4:3 on on wide screen tv. Everybody will look 10x fatter as they are. As I remember many GUI's allow you to enter the resolution. First a crop then enter the target resolution.

[lilhobo]

on a big TV it really doesnt matter LOL seriously !!

16:9 or 4:3 (16:12) there really isnt that much difference.

Its better than looking at a pinhole, personal preference

[Sharktooth]

all GUIs do that. Just set a different AR or just Resize.

[lilhobo]

apparently dvdfab doesnt do that !

[Sharktooth]

dvdfab is not a GUI... it's a tool that HAS a GUI.
rip your movies with DVD Fab and then convert them using any GUI, like MeGUI, RipBot264, StaxRip... or whatever.
be prepared to get a completely stretched video...

[lilhobo]

does MeGUI read a video_ts folder? didnt look like it would?

[Sharktooth]

it does... but you need to read the guides, learn basics of video and audio encoding then, learn how tools work and then how to set up an encoder and then you can start encoding.

[Washka]

it does... but you need to read the guides, learn basics of video and audio encoding then, learn how tools work and then how to set up an encoder and then you can start encoding.

Why you should change that? When 95% of movies are recorded with that "black lines" ^^

Best solution: Buy a bigger TV and start loving that black lines :):devil: because you will always have problems with that...

edit: Or buy a 21:10 TV :) I think P*****s have it :)