Resizing Video by adding?

[PNPman]

FitCD and other tools i have tried all do resizing by cropping. Is there a program that will give me the option of calculating by adding instead?

or

Can someone point me to the formulas used to calculate and i'll figure it out myself

[PNPman]

anyone?

[PNPman]

nudge

[PNPman]

nobody adds black lines?

[Truman]

What do you mean with "resizing by cropping"? I can give you an example what I do.
source is 720x576 (16:9[1:2,35 widescreen])
crop x=24, y=72 -->672x432
resize 448x320
add borders left16,top128,right16,buttom128
>>>480x576

Hope it helps.

[PNPman]

in you example, before resizing the image you are cropping (removing part of the image).

I don't want to loose any of the image i want to add borders then resize. Of course i want to retain aspect.
ie. if i wanted to change a 320x240 divx to vcd 352x240. i don't want to crop to 320x222 before resizing. I would rather add lines, then to cut of any of the image.

[Truman]

I crop 24 pixels left and right because this is the part that I dont see at TV anyway, and many times the left and right edges are crappy as well.
This is not important for you. You have a 320x240 DivX. Is the aspect ratio of this DivX correct? Then just encode it to 352x240 VCD, there wont be a problem as long as you don't change the aspect ratio.
Keep in mind, MPEG do not use square pixels, so you have to resize the aspect ratio only if needed. No matter whether I use resolution 352x240, 352x480 or 480x480, the TV will display the frames as full screen at correct aspect ratio.
It would be a different problem when you have a for example 640x272 or 320x136 DivX. Then you have to add borders to play it properly.

[Shabubu]

Open up the file in VDub, and use the resize filter to add black borders then framserve, or do it using avisynth

[hitechjunkie]

you could also try setting the video arrange method in tmpgenc to "center (custom size)", entering your desired image size, setting your desired output mpeg rez, and let tmpgenc add the black borders for you...