extension to letterbox wanted

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When I convert my TV captures to VCD I normally blacken a 16 pixel border (top, bottom, left and right) as this area is not visible on my TV (overscan) and saves some bitrate while encoding.

It's easy to do with a combination of crop and addborders but it could be even easier when letterbox offered me not only top and bottom but also left and right as input paramters.

It's really a nice-to-have, so just in case some bored programmer needs to do train his fingers a little...

Ah, maybe a color code as well in case someone likes a colored border.

Thanks in advance in case anyone cares.

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[sh0dan]

Post it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2 and I'll assign it to myself (but at a low priority ;)

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Thanks, man, that's quick and good news. I created that request, but I overlooked the priority option, so it's now on 5 but you can treat it as 1.

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[Si]

If you'r using TMPGEnc for encoding the VCD, you can simply use its Clip filter amd just leave it set from one encode to another.

(I do it myself because its quicker/easier than my own VirtualDub filter :o )

regards
Simon

[sh0dan]

Well - I did implement it (in CVS). You can download test binary from here (http://cultact-server.novi.dk/kpo/avisynth/avs_cvs.html)

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Great, that was fast indeed for a low priority item. Just tried it and it works nicely.

Thanks a bundle, Klaus!

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