4:3 divx to 16:9 anamorphic?

[ktd]

I have searched the forum but not find a soluton to this.

I have alot of letterboxed divx movies I want to turn into 16:9 anamorphic. Is that possible? I have tried resize the image with VirtualDub but the black borders are still there.

[killingspree]

you have to crop and resize...
also iirc you can set it somewhere in ffdshow....

if you want the settings to be permanent you'll have to reencode the movie!

steVe

[ktd]

How do I do that. Can I do it in VirtualDub?
I dont mind re encode the movie...
I have re encoded the movie to 512x288(272) but the black bars is still there...

[killingspree]

you sure can...
go to Video > Filters > Add
select the "null transform" filter, hit ok, and hit "cropping..." in the lower right corner. a window will pop up viewing a frame of your video and letting you crop off all 4 sides...

afterwards go back to the filters, load the reizing filter and enter the size you want!

then do a normal encode...

hope this helps
steVe

[ktd]

I have looked there but there is no black bars there. It show the hole movie...
If I play the movie in windowed mode on the PC theres no bars but if I swith to full screen there is.

[killingspree]

If I play the movie in windowed mode on the PC theres no bars but if I swith to full screen there is.
oh... (:
the avi doesn't have any black bars.... (: well then you already got your 16:9 video most likely (disregarding a small aspect error)

512x288
this is not a 4:3 resolution... if you want no black bars you'll have to crop off 64 lines on the left and right side, or you somehow stretch or squeeze your image...
if you want a 16:9 resolution you'll always have black bars on full screen display on your PC monitor (unless a 16:9 monitor i do not know of exists)

hope i got your problem this time... you kinda confused me...

steVe

[ktd]

I want the movie to show on my widescreen Tv with no black bars. Is that possible?

And by the way, thank you very much for helping me out!!!

[killingspree]

how do you play it on your widescreen TV?
through a TV-out or a SVCD?

steVe

[ktd]

Through QCast (Playstation2).

[killingspree]

so you play your avi file burnt to a CD on your PS2? i guess then you'll have to set the output AR of the PS2 to 16:9 .... no idea how that works though (or if it even works) as i do not have one ):

steVe

[jggimi]

While televisions and video monitors are restricted to two resolutions (4:3, 16:9), films can have a wide variety of aspect ratios. So if your content was originally from film, unless it was shot in 4:3 (1.33:1) or 16:9 (1.85:1), you will always have some letterboxing when displaying on a monitor or TV. Here's a quick and easy link (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/aspectratios/widescreenorama.html) to help explain it.

[ktd]

Thanks guys.

QCast is a streaming tool. I install a program that act like a streaming server. I then boot a java client on my Ps2 that connects to the server over LAN and then I can stream movies.
But I downloaded an anamorphic movie and that played fine in full widescreen without black bars...

[jggimi]

Congrats. You happened to download a 1.85:1 movie. Wonderful. Click on this link (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43617).

But as I mentioned, there are many different film aspect ratios. Cinemascope, for example, is 2.35:1 (as are many other film formats). If you can figure out how to put that on a 1.85:1 screen without letterboxing, you're either doing a 1.85:1 pan&scan, or you've stretched the image, and, either way, ruined the director's vision.

See Doom9's Aspect Ratios Explained (http://www.doom9.org/aspectratios.htm) , if you won't look at the "widescreen-o-rama" link I provided.

[killingspree]

Originally posted by ktd

But I downloaded an anamorphic movie

oh oh... :) please do not talk about dl'ed content here... (see many many other posts for details :)

anyway, perhaps you could tell us the exact resolutions of both movies, the one that worked and the one that didn't...

steVe