best settings in tmpeg for 4.3 tv?

[mabos22]

what are the best settings/template in tmpeg to view on a 4.3 tv screen ie loose the black lines top and bottom but without losing too much of the orignal screen?

[scottb721]

It the box where you normally choose "Full Screen (Keep Aspect Ratio)",
instead select "No Margins(Keep AR)"
This lets it chop the sides off so the picture can be expanded to fill the top and bottom bars.
I leave the black bars in the hope that I'll buy a wide screen TV.

[mabos22]

Yes i have tried that. Even with a wide screen tv the black bars are there!

[scottb721]

Some movies are even more widescreen than 16:9. This could be the cause of the bars remaining. Did the No margins option reduce the size of the bars?

[mabos22]

Yes the margins were reduced. And your right about some being more wide screen than others, i tried a couple of movies at those settings and some were full screen and others had a reduced bar size.
Cheers.

[scottb721]

normal 4:3 = 1.33:1
Most DVD's I've seen are 1.8:1 (16:9) or 2.3:1.Always shown on the back of the case.
2.3:1 are the widescreen movies that have bars even on a widescreen tv.
the 1.8:1 movies should have little or no bars.

You can normally see the difference between the black bars that have been made part of the actual video (like in 2.3:1 discs) and the bars added by the player to fill the top and bottom gaps.

When using No Margin, TMPG only removes the black bars it would have added doing a normal keep widescreen aspect ratio encode.

If it's still unacceptable perhaps something like VirtualDub could be used to crop the bars that are part of the actual video then frameserved to TMPGenc. Then encode with No Margin.

It should then stretch the picture in all directions until the real picture info is at the top and bottom of the screen (losing the sides ofcourse)

I'm just guessing here.

[DJRumpy]

If you have a 2.35:1 aspect ratio movie, and you want it fullscreen on a 16:9 television, then you have to convert the aspect ratio to 1.85:1. This will give you fullcreen on a widescreen television, using the no margin settings in TMPGenc.

You do this by either dividing the width, by 1.85, or multiplying the height by 1.85. Either way will get you the new height/width needed. Crop off the excess, and re-encode using a 16:9 aspect ratio. It will be fullscreen on a widescreen tv.

I'm somewhat suprised you don't simply use the zoom function available on most widescreen televisions. The letterboxing on a 2.35:1 movie is so minimal, that it's barely noticable. A quick click of the button can have the same affect. I prefer the entire movie, rather than a chopped version...