how can i stretch the screen ?

[DSM4Life]

Some times video doesnt play full screen. I want to stretch it to full screen but dont want to mess up quality when i play on stand a lone dvd player, how can i do this ?

[Baldrick]

What is your source?
What tool(s) are you using?

[lordsmurf]

stretch it to full screen

AND

dont want to mess up quality

how can i do this ?

Cannot be done.

However, you CAN use the ZOOM feature of the player. Or crop and re-encode. But quality loss happens, no way around it.

[GreyDeath]

By full screen I assume you mean the 4:3 format? If you don't mind people looking very tall and thin, it can be done by just setting your DVD player to 16:9 screen mode. No loss of quality there, just mucking around with the aspect ratio.

If you're talking about making a Letterbox movie Full Screen, then that would require reencoding and zooming in, which will always lose quality. It can be done using any number of Encoding programs like TMPGEnc or Vegas, Premiere, etc.

[DSM4Life]

Its a mpg file and the tools i use a divxtodvd copytodvd , dvdshrink. I never had to resize a vid. When i open on my computer it has like a inch on sides and half on top but like i said i want it full screen for my tv not really concerned about computer viewing.

[thecoalman]

Its a mpg file and the tools i use a divxtodvd copytodvd , dvdshrink. I never had to resize a vid. When i open on my computer it has like a inch on sides and half on top but like i said i want it full screen for my tv not really concerned about computer viewing.

If the "black bars" are viewable whrn you play it on a computer, or in other words it's part of the video you have to crop it.

[DSM4Life]

can you help me on how i do that ? What program you recommend ? sorry i am new to this...

[guns1inger]

You can set your player to force pan and scan. This means that for all 16:9 DVDs you will see full screen, but only see the centre. Anything that happens to the side will be missed by you. This won't help disks that are already 4:3 letterbox.

When you view this on the computer, what do you use ? Depending on your settings, window media player will show the black borders even when they are not in the original. Try using something like virtualdubmpeg or virtualdubmod to see if the borders exist.

[DSM4Life]

i downloaded TMPGEnc 2.5 I been playing around with that . Can this program do it ?

[DSM4Life]

What is your source?
What tool(s) are you using?

i found this on another post from you "settings->advanced->source aspect ratio:16:9 and video arrange method: full screen (keep aspect ratio).
check it with file->preview to see that it looks okey. "

i did that but when i go into preview it comes up blank with nothing to view ?

[thecoalman]

When i open on my computer it has like a inch on sides and half on top but like i said i want it full screen for my tv not really concerned about computer viewing.

By this I'm assuming they are part of the video, setting the aspect is not going to help because the black areas are part of the video. The only way to remove them is to crop them from the video. I think Virtualdub will do that but I'm not certain because I don't use it. Do a search for cropping.

The only other alternative is as suggested above zoom in with your DVD player.

[Baldrick]

change the directshow property, read www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc#problems