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  1. 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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  2. And what kind of video files are these? AVI, MPG, what?
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  3. 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
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  4. 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 ?

    Thank you.
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  5. You can do it with CLI batch file

    http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=117553
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  6. Thank you, but this is gibberish to me. How do you use this ?
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  7. 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)
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  8. 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 ?
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  9. 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)
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  10. 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.
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  11. 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 .
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  12. It's working ! I didn't open it in the directory of avi's. THANK YOU !
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  13. 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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  14. Originally Posted by Nico Darko View Post
    Another question. Do you know if there is a program that would do the same thing but for mkv files ? Thanks.
    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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  15. Thanks, I'll try it.
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