Help with scropt to view a 4:3 letterboxed dvd on a 16:9 display

[Mr.Bitey]

Howdy,

I have a couple of DVD's that are letterboxed 4:3 (eg. the abyss special edition), when I view these titles on my 16:9 display I get large black borders top,bottom,left and right - resulting in a postage-stamp like image with a lot of screen-real-estate being wasted.

I would greatly appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction for being able to view this material (in real-time) using the full-real estate of my display :)

Ive tried "zooming" in zoomplayer but the resulting image is very poor. (the aspect ratio is fine however!)

Im using avisynth via ffdshow presently with limitedsharpenfaster and tried adding in autocrop but it didnt seem to help.

Im resizing to 1776x1000 (my desktop res) and the original material is PAL DVD.

I think what I need to do is crop the borders and just resize the actual image..

Cheers,
Bitey

[MuttLover]

There is an option in DVDRebuilder Pro to remove the borders but I do not know if it is in the standard edition.

[Inc]

Ive tried "zooming" in zoomplayer but the resulting image is very poor. (the aspect ratio is fine however!)
Well fitting a 16:9 Proportion letterboxed to 4:3 again back to a 16:9 Proportions means upscaling. So you would have to apply imageenhancement routines so it will be worth it. Like LimitedSharpen() or iip(), do have a search in here there are two interesting threads dealing with them.

[laserfan]

There is an option in DVDRebuilder Pro to remove the borders but I do not know if it is in the standard edition.This is the easiest tool I have found to "convert letterboxed to anamorphic" which is what you want to do. Works great.

Another tool I've used is DVD2SVCD (actually DVD2DVD).