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Started by scarface, March 01, 2013, 12:21 AM

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scarface

Any solution involves cropping or distorting the image...
You can try to reencode with handbrake, and put your own height/width or one parameter only with the "keep aspect ratio". There Is also the anamorphic option but its difficult.
You should read the handbrake settings topic and perhaps talk to Ahmad, he's undoubtedly the real specialist for this.

humbert

I wasn't aware that Ahmad was the expert on this. Since this is a public post, hopefully he'll read this and enlighten me.

I've been reading a little about this. What I'm trying to do is called "pan & scan". This involves cropping out a small amount of the edges on both sides (hopefully the least important) resulting in that the aspect ratio is reduced to 16:9. I installed Handbrake once but I didn't see any way to do this.

Any ideas?


Ahmad

Sorry humbert :(
I'm not that expert about that.

I never need to change the aspect ratio when encoding a video because it deteriorate the picture. Also I scarcely need to convert videos.

But you can use any program, like handbrake as scarface said, and write the width and height manually.
Also, you need to convert to a format that your TV will understand. I don't know if handbrake converts to a format other than h264 or not.

I tried a program before and it was sufficient for any kind of converting..
Its name is Format Factory.
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Shadow.97

Can someone recommend a good program for ripping DVD and Blueray?

iih

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 21, 2014, 04:25 AM
Can someone recommend a good program for ripping DVD and Blueray?
so many program for ripping..what you prefer? I tried to provide you..not kidding!
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humbert

The reason I'm trying to crop the edges of a 2:35:1 movie down to 16:9 is precisely to get rid of those horrendous black bars at the top and bottom of the TV screen. It's true that some of the edges need to be cropped out, but going from 21:9 to 16:9 isn't that bad. The real deterioration involves cropping it down to 4:3 to fill those ancient square TV's. Let me give Format Factory a try and see if that works.

The TV supports h.264 AVC mp4 files - there are some I get from Yify that won't play on the TV (all will play on the computer). I've been told it's probably some codec in the mp4 container the TV doesn't like. I can make it work by using Ultra Video Joiner to "convert" it to the supported format, but UVJ won't make it come out as 16:9. I'm doing all this because I hate watching movies on the computer, that's what the TV is for.

@Shadow -> When I used to rip DVD's, I used Slysoft's AnyDVD combined with CloneDVD. AnyDVD destroys the copy protection and any region code while the other one copies or converts. It worked great. You might want to check it out.

Ahmad

@humbert..

I want to say that I prefer Mediacoder than Format Factory in quality and customizations..

Format Factory is just more simple and every one can understand it easily, yet it has a worse AAC encoding quality than Mediacoder.

So, In the case of your TV (MP4, H264 encoding), I think scarface's recommendation about Mediacoder is better.
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humbert

Quote from: Ahmad on April 22, 2014, 03:04 AM
I want to say that I prefer Mediacoder than Format Factory in quality and customizations..
Format Factory is just more simple and every one can understand it easily, yet it has a worse AAC encoding quality than Mediacoder.
So, In the case of your TV (MP4, H264 encoding), I think scarface's recommendation about Mediacoder is better.

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded Mediacoder and I'll check it out later on. FF didn't do what I wanted. Despite the fact that my player identified the file as 1920×1080, the black bars were still there, it's as if FF believes they're part of the movie.

iih

#48
QuoteThanks for the tip. I downloaded Mediacoder and I'll check it out later on. FF didn't do what I wanted. Despite the fact that my player identified the file as 1920×1080, the black bars were still there, it's as if FF believes they're part of the movie.
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donkeygirl

#49
Quote from: iih on April 23, 2014, 03:56 AM
QuoteThanks for the tip. I downloaded Mediacoder and I'll check it out later on. FF didn't do what I wanted. Despite the fact that my player identified the file as 1920×1080, the black bars were still there, it's as if FF believes they're part of the movie.
Might will help you, Link download Latest version MediaCoder 0.8.29 Build 5608

Changes in 0.8.29.5608:
MP4Box 0.5.1-r5210
x265 0.9.68 (x64)
FFmpeg 2.2.1
Fixed AviSynth script file (.avs) decoding breakage

Homepage
Changelog
Download x86 Build 5608
Download x64 Build 5608
Download x86 Build 5608 (update only)
Download x64 Build 5608 (update only)
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