Crop 2.35 or 2.40 to 1.77 - Mpeg2

[Micke@home]

I see questions about 16:9 to 4:3 etc but I can't find anything dealing about removing the borders on a WS 2.35:1 DVD.

When doing back-ups on my DVDs I normally use DVD2SVCD (in DVD mode) which makes perfect copies together with CCE. I know it uses Avisynth scripts to resize and other, but how can I add the crop-command into these lines and how should it look like? Both PAL and NTSC DVDs.
It is very important for me to keep really good quality on the back-ups.
I know that some information will be lost but..

If I should use Virtualdub I can't save as a mpv, mpg or similar? Only avi?

Tired of still having black borders on most films even after buying a WS TV.

[FulciLives]

I see questions about 16:9 to 4:3 etc but I can't find anything dealing about removing the borders on a WS 2.35:1 DVD.

When doing back-ups on my DVDs I normally use DVD2SVCD (in DVD mode) which makes perfect copies together with CCE. I know it uses Avisynth scripts to resize and other, but how can I add the crop-command into these lines and how should it look like? Both PAL and NTSC DVDs.
It is very important for me to keep really good quality on the back-ups.
I know that some information will be lost but..

If I should use Virtualdub I can't save as a mpv, mpg or similar? Only avi?

Tired of still having black borders on most films even after buying a WS TV.

You poor baby!

Films are shot with all kinds of different aspect ratios from 1.33:1 to 2.35:1 and some even wider than that!

So no one display ... even a 16x9 widescreen display ... will ever get rid of the "dreaded" black bands on some films.

Deal with it. That's just how it is ... that is REALITY.

Cutting off the sides or distorting the aspect ratio are not VALID methods of filling up your TV screen.

I suggest you take some time at the following website:

http://www.widescreen.org/

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Micke@home]

Ok I have now visited the widescreen.org site.. Of course a change from 16:9 to 4:3 Pan&Scan is out of the question and I agree that even my idea of less "cropping" is not really what the filmmakers was thinking of when making their film, hence their choice of aspect ratio.

I though expected some answers instead of a besserwisser attitude...

It might be so that after I have done one conversion 2.35 to 1.85 will agree with you and keep my back-ups in original but if I haven't tried, how will I know?