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<blockquote data-quote="DalaNorth" data-source="post: 111170" data-attributes="member: 27872">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...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DalaNorth, post: 111170, member: 27872"] 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... [/QUOTE]

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