Xvid Resize

[scamit]

Hi,

I have an xvid file which I want to resize to 720x360. I know i can use virtualdub to do the job, but virtualdub encodes the file again, i dont want to re-encode the file, i just want to resize the file without re-encoding. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[guns1inger]

You can't. If you change the properties of the image, you must re-encode. Resizing changes the image properties, hence re-ecoding is mandatory.

[manono]

You can resize it at playback, using, for example, ffdshow. But as guns1inger says, any permanent resize requires reencoding.

I don't know why you want 720x360 anyway, since that's a 2:1 AR, and there aren't too many movies made that way. My educated guess is, unless someone already did some heavy cropping, that it'll play with a bad AR.