Stretched picture

[rjc7394]

I have a DivX 5.0 video which looks stretched (i.e. the people look tall and skinny). The frame aspect ratio=11:9, resolution=352x288, fps=25.0. What is causing it and how can I get rid of it? Converting to mpeg2 (740x480, 4:3) get rid of it?

[Sharktooth]

Bad aspect ratio. You can use ffdshow to correct it or any media player capable of adjusting the AR during playback.

[obieobieobie]

You could also remux the A/V into matroska and use the Matroska Shell Extension to change display size/ar in the container. That way you won't have to go about changing aspect ratio all the time.

[Sharktooth]

You can also use MPEG4Modifier to permanenlty change the AR of a MPEG-4 stream in an AVI file.

[obieobieobie]

Yes, that would also work, but with the matroska method you won't have any problems with mpeg4 decoders that ignore the info in the stream.

Of course, it won't work for standalones, since there are AFAIK none that support matroska (enlighten me, if I'm wrong about this!) :)

[rjc7394]

Forgot to add that I permanently want to get rid of it so I can play on standalone player. I'll try the mpeg4modifier, thanks much.