Widescreen To Fullscreen

[OG24]

is there any way to make a widescreen avi to a fullscreen one?

[mats.hogberg]

I don't understand this (somehow very common) question.
A TV can be either 16:9 or 4:3. If the AVI (that can have any AR) isn't 16:9 or 4:3, it can't be made full screen without either distorting the AR, or cutting some parts out, and neither option is acceptable (to me at least).

/Mats

[OG24]

this makes no sense though the AVI i have is 4:3 but it is still displayed widescreen!???

I put the file in Gspot and it says this about the aspect ratio

SAR=4:3 PAR=1:1 DAR=4:3

[manono]

What's it say about the resolution?

[mats.hogberg]

I'm making the assumption you're talking about TV playback? On a 16:9 or 4:3 TV?

/Mats

[OG24]

no this is for a portable mp3/video player and i want it to look fullscreen with a 320x240 resolution

[Alex_ander]

If you have it letterboxed and actually 16:9 (not wider) you can crop off top/bottom borders and 4/9 of its horizontal length in pixels to make it 4:3. You'll have to sacrifice part of image for this.

[Midzuki]

What is the resolution of the .AVI file you want to work on?

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[OG24]

the resolution is 320x240

[theewizard]

the black bars might be part of the video, if it was reduce / converted from a flim version at say 2:21

THE QUESTION IS, is the video distorted, are circles round or oval ?

if everything looks correct, but doesn't fill the screen top to bottom,

strectching it will distort it,

so you have to crop some off the sides to fill top to bottom without distortion

if it is already squished, then the top & bttom blk space can be cropped out and the video strecthed vetically

[OG24]

ok thanx