HELP re-encoding divx without black boarders

[ryan8188]

Iv got many divx/Xvid fims on my cpu all at different frame rates reslutions etc. I have got a divx/Xvid media player which i want to drop them on to to play on my 32" widescreen tv but with out the black boarders on the top and bottom of the screen. (so the pic of the film is the same size as the full screen with out being stretched) I also want them all in PAL.

Please can some one give me some advice of how to do this and what program to use? Thanx

[Guest]

Re-encode them from your original DVDs.

[ryan8188]

some of them are ones iv borrowed of m8s but even if i was to encode my own origionals how wud i d it so the divx/xvid had no black boarders once encoded and what wud u recomend i use

Thanx

[jggimi]

Ryan:
We can't help you with content you don't own rights to. Please review Rule #6 (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm), it's our most important rule. Thank you.
Movies are created with all different rectangular shapes -- TVs though, are pretty much going to be either 4x3 or 16x9 in shape.
To do what you want to do, you will have to decide between a loss of image (cropping) , or stretching/shrinking of the shape to fit your screen, making people look fat or thin, round objects oval, etc., and perhaps making the content unwatchable.
The majority of members here think that this type of cropping or resizing is a poor idea, just to use up all the "space" on your TV.
The video industry has special tools they use to make these "fullscreen" transfers. That technique is known as "Pan & Scan." It requires making a rectangle in the shape of a TV, and putting it where you want it for each and every scene, and it often requires moving the rectangle during a scene.
See www.widescreen.org for some examples of what "fullscreen" images contain compared to the film version.
The vast majority of us don't like "fullscreen", and as far as I know, none of us have built any free or open source tools for this purpose. :rolleyes:
The easiest, and least expensive way to make a Pan & Scan video from a DVD is to purchase the "Fullscreen" version from the DVD distributor.