smooshed resoltion

[Phynias]

I have a rip of a tv show that someone did and they tried to letterbox a fullscreen picture. So basicaly it is smooshed and the people looked like midgets.
Is there anyway to stretch this back and maybe improve the picture?

[Soulhunter]

Maybe a bit more info about the content you want to play would be usefull...!?! ;)
Is it a VCD/SVCD...? Is it a AVI file...? Is it DivX, RealMedia, Quicktime or else...?

Without knowing your contenet... (And without knowing if this works well in your case :D)

Try ffdshow... Crop the boarders (crop), and then correct the AR back to 4:3 (resize&aspec)...

Just a guess ;)

Bye

[dani82]

atlernate solution:

if the file can load into tmpgenc, Setting -> Advanced -> Clip frame and crop away the top & bottom black border, and set Video arrange Method to Full screen. that should be it, unless i left something out.

only encode a couple of frames to make sure it works, so you don't waste your time if it didn't.

[jggimi]

Phynias: It's just a guess by looking at your previous posts, but if your TV show is in AVI format, all you may need is an AVI player that can shift aspect ratios, such as BSPlayer or ZoomPlayer. Both are available from Doom9's download page, and can display in default (square pixels), 4:3, or 16:9.

By doing it in the player, you don't take the loss incurred through re-encoding.

[Phynias]

Pretty sure this wont work.
Not only did the person who ripped this crush a fullscreen into a widescreen, they also neglected to crop out the black bars. So the large black bars on top and bottom are part of the picture. If it just was widescreen with no black bars that would probably work.

Originally posted by jggimi
Phynias: It's just a guess by looking at your previous posts, but if your TV show is in AVI format, all you may need is an AVI player that can shift aspect ratios, such as BSPlayer or ZoomPlayer. Both are available from Doom9's download page, and can display in default (square pixels), 4:3, or 16:9.

By doing it in the player, you don't take the loss incurred through re-encoding.

[mic]

A fair number of possibilities, depending on the video file and what you want to do with it...

It could be the video is formatted for the TV, which can make it appear too wide on your PC monitor. DV or mpg2 are examples that will look stretched on your PC but proper on a TV monitor... A prog. like Power DVD will display a 720 x 480 NTSC video at 540 height to compensate.

One way to convert the picture would be in V/Dub. Open the file (if mpg2 use dvd2avi & vfapi), go to filters, and add the built-in resize. Set the new size and crop off the black bars, saving the video using whatever codec. You'll have to adjust the frame size and cropping to get the proper proportions in your final video.

Another way might be to do the same thing in encoding software like Real's Helix or the Winmedia 9 encoder, or most any nle. Might also try using the winmedia 9 encoder, cropping off the black bars, and setting a pixel aspect ratio. You'd have to play with the settings, but basically you're inserting flags in the encoded file telling winmedia player to stretch the picture height on playback, rather then stretching it beforehand.

You might be able to get away (depending on the file type, codec etc.) changing the flags for the video file (try this on a copy!). Here you'd be telling whatever player how it should be displayed, and you'd still have the bars, but it would be the easiest method if it worked.

Please post more info about the file itself, ideally with a link to a snapshot or 2 & I'm sure you'll get a more exact answer.