Resize AVI Video to fit on TV

[aznphellaz]

Hey guys, i just bought a DIVX player and i tried to play some movies. Everything was perfect, And then i put some of my anime CDs and the image was too large for the screen. I cant see the subtitle. Im looking for a program to resize the video without losing quality.
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thanks

[canada_habs2004]

usually there's not to much u can do about that, because regular TUBE Televisions display a part of the image hidden behind the plastic frame of the TV.

Thats why if you measure like a 27" TV, the screen won't actually be 27, it will be a bit smaller because part of the screen is hidden.


The only way i would fix this problem would be to use a video editing program to make the video a split screen image (ie so that you can make it smaller and appear overtop part of another video) and then place it on top of a black image, and just shrink the video so that it is surrounded by a small black border.

I know i'd be able to do this in Ulead Mediastudio, the video editor i have, it would depend on if your video editor could do this.

[aznphellaz]

I used VirtualDub to resize the image to make it 5% smaller. The problem is at the end of the project, the AVI files is bigger than the original.
170Mb to 380Mb.

[guns1inger]

If your video ended up bigger then you did not use the correct settings. Try a lower bitrate when outputting. Look up the glossery (to your left) for Overscan for details on why you are seeing this.

[junkmalle]

You cannot just make the image smaller. Your DVD player will simply enlarge it more to keep it full screen. what you need to do is add a black border around the image -- 5 to 10 percent on all four sides. That way the black border will be hidden by the television's overscan, not the edge of the picture.

You can do this with any number of programs. There's only about 1000 threads here dealing with the issue.

[Stormin Norman]

virtualdub or avisynth will resize and add borders. 100 of guides about those tools.

[junkmalle]

Here's something I wrote a while back:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1350407#1350407

There are also instructions for TMPGEnc further down that page.

If you video comes out too big, use a lower bitrate or a larger Quantization (contant quality) setting for your compression codec.