cropping with megui

[eao1]

im encoding dvds to h.264 using megui i want to keep the best quality possible and want the keep the same cropping in the encoded video as was in the original dvd but all of the time i get these black bars to the left and right of my videowhich are not on the dvd, basicaly i want to get the same video output as the video input but a much smaller file size

in the avisynth script creater i keep the resolution the same and do not adjust the cropping tools,i have also played around with the clever anamorphic encoding settings which have had no effect
i hope some1 can help

[poisondeathray]

Note that not all media players support the flags for displaying aspect ratios correctly. Try playing it in MPC and what do you get?

For MeGUI, you have to signal DAR separately in the .avs script. (This should have been done in the "clever anamorphic" setting)

For example for a DAR of 16:9 you would have to put:
global MeGUI_darx = 16
global MeGUI_dary = 9

You can preview this when you load the .avs into MeGUI, but click the "show DAR" checkbox and it should display correctly what MeGUI is encoding; but it's a different matter if the player can't play it properly

The other possibility is that you changed your player's display settings, like custom AR, size, stretch to window, etc... You can do this with most players.

[Midzuki]

Anyway, at least the szlutt is worth seeing