Adding borders to make up for TV cut

[Fars33r]

Is there a way to add borders to the m2v files so that when I play the movie on the TV, the part that is cut will be the border, and the amount of video lost will be minimized?

[manono]

Hello, and welcome to the forum-

You playing this from a standalone DVD player, or from a computer to the TV? If from the standalone, then I don't know of any way to add black all around without reencoding. When encoding, the AviSynth AddBorders command will easily add as much or as little black around the outside of the video as you like.

If playing from a computer, then a player such as Zoom Player is designed to allow you to zoom in or out in small increments, to adjust the size on the screen so you don't lose anything to the TV's overscan.

Do the subs really stretch all the way to the edge of the video? If not, the overscan may be too much on the TV. If you can access the service menu, you can adjust the picture size so that you don't lose as much to the overscan.

[Fars33r]

I'm burning to DVD-R, authoring with DVD Maestro (hoped maybe Maestro could do it :( ) to play on a standalone player. I burnt to DVD-RW already to test, I realised I had to change the menus a bit, which is easy. But I also have to add the borders to make up for the amount of the video my TV cuts.

Anyhow, I'm interested in using AVISynth to add the borders to either the M2V or MPG I have for each episode. I've looked around and tried a few things but ended up lost with nothing changing.

I've tried 2 methods so far, both with the same script;

LoadPlugin("mpeg2dec3.dll")
Mpeg2Source("C:\Documents and Settings\*****\Desktop\Current Project\Elfen Lied Project\[ready to author]\01el.m2v")
AddBorders(48,48,48,48)

Now, I've tried in VDubMod > open Video... > tools > script editor then I inserted the above script. This is where I get lost, from the script editor I chose 'save', but it simply saved the script itself. I don't understand how to apply the changes. I tried using the same script in notepad, saving as a AVS file in the same folder as the M2V files. Still nothing.

I read that WMP should be able to play the SFV if there was only the word 'version' in the SFV file, but it was unsupported. So i'm now not sure if AVISynth is properly installed.

I'm very interested in learning how to use AVISynth, I'd appreciate any help :)

*** I just now saw the AVISynth section; (today's not my day), I'll post in there.