best way to modify aspect ratio of a DIVX

[redskull]

Hi,

I use my Philips DVD player to watch DIVX movie files. When I play them I always get that squished 16x9 image and have to zoom/stretch it to get to hide the black bars. I'm assuming when this happens it means the file is a 4x3 aspect with black bars. How can i convert them to pure 16x9 with no bars so they will correctly fit on my 16x9 TV.

Thanks

[reboot]

Virtualdub.

[celtic_druid]

From what I understand that is just the way ESS based players work.

[guns1inger]

Redskull - you do understand that most movies will have black bars top and bottom ? The aspect ratio of widescreen television is 16:9, or 1.778. Any movie with an aspect ratio higher than this will require black bars to PREVENT stretching. As most movies are shot 1.85 ro 2.35, with quite a few at other ratios in between, nearly all movies will have bars. The only way to get rid of them is to zoom in and cut the ends off.

That said, all you need to do is crop and stretch in virtualdub, then re-encode, risking a quality loss, or accept that fact that need to zoom occassionally.