FAVC v1.07 Resize Scripting?

[Trac]

Does anyone know of a simple script command to resize a video from 4:3 to 16:9 with no letterbox/pillars?
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[Adub]

With out using black borders, the only way to do that is by stretching, which looks quite horrible in my opinion. In order to do that, you would just need to crop the sources black borders and resize to 720x480.

Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think it's possible to get a 16:9 aspect DVD without using black borders, as the DVD spec requires 720x480 resolution, and something that filled the entire screen would not be a proper 16:9.

[mpucoder]

In DVD and MPEG-2 display aspect ratio and image dimensions are unrelated. 16:9 DVDs use the full 720x480 frame, a widescreen display device stretches the image. If the DVD player knows the display device is 4:3 it then can either P/S or letterbox (depending on authoring decision) the image.

There is a flag, seldom used and of questionable support, to indicate a video with hard letterboxing. If setting that bit fails the only other option is to resize and re-encode.

[Adub]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up mpucoder.