Getting rid of black bars with RipBot264

[tstein]

I can't seem to get the crop feature to work as I'm hoping. I'd like to have a movie completely fill my 1080p 47" TV. At the moment, I'm working on Transformers, but I get the same result with all movies.

If I set crop to "automatically" and size to "Do not resize", I get black bars in the preview within windows media player. If I set crop to "automatically" and size to "Custom" and set it to 1280x544, I no longer get black bars in windows. However, on my TV I still get black bars.

So what am I misunderstanding?

Thanks
Tomas

[poisondeathray]

Your TV doesn't have a 2:35 aspect ratio, but the contents of the movie are

Your TV has 16:9 or 1.7778 AR , so it puts black bars top & bottom (letterbox) to keep the aspect ratio ,otherwise everything would be distorted. If you set it to fill, everyone would be tall & skinny

If your movie contents had 16:9 AR, then it would fill the TV area perfectly. But most Hollywood movies are not 16:9 AR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterbox

[tstein]

Hmm...I get what your saying. So how do some movies manage to fill my TV screen? For example, I downloaded a scene release of "The Hurt Locker" (to compare my rips to) and it looked perfect. No bars and there was no distortion....I've been trying to recreate that since.

[poisondeathray]

Hurt Locker has a 1.78 AR , so it will fill a 16:9 display

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/

[tstein]

Ah, cool. I'm following you now. So, I should probably just leave all my movies at Automatic cropping and be done with it.