making a video to fit inside the tv's borders

[sepultura]

is it possible to make a video to fit on a tv screen, quite small, of a resolution of about 160x120, right in the middle, with the resulting black borders on all sides? OR will a tv attempt to stretch the video to it's full potential resolution?

[manono]

Hi-

If you encode it with black all around, it'll play with black all around. Otherwise it'll expand to fill the screen. And if your player or TV has a negative zoom (mine does), you can shrink it to a small video in the middle of the screen that way.

I'm assuming you're playing this through a standalone DVD/MPEG-4 player. If using the video out of an HTPC, then something like Zoom Player can make it as big or as small as you like.

[guns1inger]

FitCD and Avisynth is the simplest way. Load the script from FitCD into virtualdub and re-encode using Fast recompress mode.

Otherwise you can use the resize filter in virtualdub, but you have to work out the proportions for yourself.