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Old 11th December 2019, 03:27   #29044  |  Link
Alleycat
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Thanks for your suggestion re cropping. I gave it a try and found that it did indeed remove the bars. The bars had been at the top and bottom, not the sides, but cropping 8 pixels from each side made them disappear. Compared with the original, the height of the picture was now the same, with no part of the original frame missing. The width of the picture was very slightly stretched, with a very small part of each side cropped. Viewed in isolation, I probably would not have noticed, so that's preferable to the black bars.

What I can't figure out is this: If I get BD-RB to convert it from SD to 1080, there are no bars, and nothing is cropped from the edges.

Also, given that the source disc has the SAR of 32:27, does that mean the original BD is not compliant? Or it is allowed for MPEG-2 on BD but not AVC?
That may explain why they stuck with MPEG-2 coding on the original.
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