How do I crop vertical bars? (widescreen to fullscreen)

[Salva Veritate]

A while ago I received a French home video in PAL-SECAM ripped to DVD, which was recorded in widescreen even though every video was 4:3. Go figure. I'm using some of those to make another compilation DVD with TMPGEnc and now the other videos have lame vertical bars. I need to chop the bars off with as little quality loss as possible.

Thanks in advance you guys, you've been helpful with everything so far!

Edit: Oops, sorry, it appears that this belongs in the DVD Authoring subforum. My apologies, I had videohelp open in two tabs.

[redwudz]

No, you're fine in this forum for now.

What you would need to do is to crop the video to a DVD standard format, then re-encode it. There will be quality loss. I'm assuming the video itself isn't 'stretched' or distorted. If the 'bars' are only visible on playback on a set top player, then maybe the aspect ratio is wrong.

You could post a Gspot 2.70 screen shot. (Blank the titles) Then we might be able to give better advice. Info here: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic271697.html