i have a couple video files that have the wrong default aspect ratio.. it doesnt matter which player i open them with they all try to play in a widescreen format (which distorts the picture making everything look short/fat) i can go in an over-ride the default and set the aspect ratio at 4:3 (which fixes the problem)
my question is: is there any simple utility i can use to just change the default aspect ratio so players will try to play in a 4:3 ratio instead of the incorrect 16:9. preferably something that wont re-encode the video file
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lol, yeah that was kinda important info i should have included
they are .avi using an older xvid version for the video
i just tried this utility
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG4_Modifier
and it seemed to do the trick!!!
figured i should post it so if anyone like me does a forum search (like i did) maybe they will see this one -
Hi,
I'm using MPEG4 Modifier to change the aspect ratio of my avi files and it works great !
The only thing is that I have a lot of files and you can only edit one video at a time, so takes a lot of time. Do you know a similar software that would do the same thing but for several files in a row ?
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You can do it with CLI batch file
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=117553 -
Look on post 52, 53 for example syntax
Place a copy of mmcl.exe in the directory of AVI's to be processed
Open a command prompt, copy & paste the command line, push enter
(you would change the command to the AR that you want e.g. 169ntsc or whatever - see the 1st post for the options) -
I still don't understand how this works. I placed a copy of mmcl.exe in the files' directory, I opened a command prompt and entered :
FOR %I IN (*.avi) DO mmcl.exe --dar custom 4:3 "%I" "%I.avi"
Nothing happens. What else should I do ? -
What do you mean nothing happens?
I just tested exact same command line and it works fine . There should be a copy of each AVI with the AR changed
Are you sure these are AVI container and MPEG4-ASP ? (it won't work with anything else) -
Yes I'm sure they are AVI, it works fine when I'm using mpeg4 modifier, doing one file at a time.
Are you sure I don't need to do something else ? there are 18 avi files in the folder. -
Are you running as administrator? maybe you don't have permissions to run certain things ?
Did you open the command prompt in the same directory of AVI's ? If not, you have to navigate to that directory or place the full path names
I just tested it again - I'm 100% sure it works . -
Another question. Do you know if there is a program that would do the same thing but for mkv files ? Thanks.
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you should be able to do it with a mkvmerge batch script
there is sort of a GUI called jmkvpropedit, you might add the --display-dimensions to the extra parameter
read there mkvmerge documentation, there are examples of the commands and syntax there
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