Movie crop settings (1 Viewer)

[DalaNorth]

So, when you ran the videos through media coder to remove the bars, the image stretches and the characters get tall and slim, but you don't mind that, correct? Or do you want the sides cut off to maintan aspect ratio?

You want to know if there is some DVD ripping software that can crop these bars while ripping, or if there is some way to stretch the image vertically using MP so that the black bars, so to speak, end up below and above the displayed TV screen?

I must admit that my understanding in the matter is limited, but I don't think any DVD ripping software can do this, since they only decode the CSS data on the DVD and don't do any transcoding. So transcoding using other software after ripping is probably the only way to do that.

Stretching the image to hide the black bars could probably be done with the right implementation of a zoom feature to zoom to any desired level in small incremental steps, but that would cut off the sides, unless we had independent vertical zoom and horizontal zoom to any level available in MP, and we do not...

 

[Hojou]

the second picture you posted is excatly what i needed to see. That picture shows (as far as i can see) a perfect picture. The movie was recorded, cut edited etc. for a movie theather in mind. When displaying on a TV (wide or 4:3) black bars are added to maintain correct aspect ratio. That is displayed the way it was ment to be displayed.

Now i still don't know if what you really want is to watch the movie the way it was intended or if you actually wanted some feature to stretch the picture even higher - making the two guys look a bit goofy I can see a portal guy designer explaining what would be needed for the picture to be zoomed vertically - a feature to zoom in small incrimental steps would always be a nice feature, but i must admit i wouldn't have thought of a feature to scale x and y independantly like it seems you want?

I guess if my brain was a computer (or something) i would like to have it stretch all the way - too fill all the screen and have my brain do the interpretation of the image (doing some scaling myself if i needed) but since my brain (sadly) isn't - i think it would annoy me to watch the movie with incorrect aspect ratio... i mean if the picture was stretched to fill the entire screen, the guys standing like they do now would have long slim faces and if they tilted their heads they would get wierd psycodlic-like wide faces instead?

Ok i need to quit writing, i bet this isn't making much sense anymore? My point was, the second picture (the one taken with a physical camera) looks perfect! the picture is not messed up - stretching it up and down would mess it all up...

Oh well i hope you find a solution If your TV has a letterbox setting on the remote or something you might get the desired (but wrong ) result if you use "normal" setting in MP and "letterbox" on your TV

 

[marcinek79]

hey hojou ^^^^^

i wonder if you ever have tried for example vlc-player or mediaplayer classic.
there is a funtion where you never get bars again AND noone is being stretched or something at all. the picter is cut to fit exactly on your screen. so if you have an 4:3 movie for example, it will be cut on the top and the bottom till it fits on the lef and right perfectly. so you have the original ratio and a fullscreen picture. in vlc you choos crop/16:9 and it makes 16:9 out of everything. try this, then you know what he would like to have for MP

btw, i really would love to see a function like in vlc with the integrated player regarding playing files out of .rar !!! i really would appreciate such a plugin.. but that just btw.

hope i was able to help somehow

 

[dubstar]

marcinek79,

I know what you mean as mythtv has the same function. If i watch a dvd in media portal it had the black bars on, how ever if i put the same dvd in my mythbox it will crop the video automatically to fit, and it never looks stretched. i'm not sure what player the internal myth player uses but the dvd and video player is XINE

http://xinehq.de/

I love the internal mp player its the best media player by far with regards to control of your video as it has numerous skip functions and it all ties in with the mp theme / skin.

This is something that requires more investigation.

Thanks for your advice.

Dubstar.