Scaling help? :)

[costanza]

Here's the project: I own some DVD's that are in 4x3 non-anamorphic letterbox (1.85:1) format. My display device (portable DVD player w/ built-in 16:9 screen) has 3 modes: FULL (for anamorphic video), 4x3 and ZOOM (blows up the image so a non-anamorphic letterbox fills up most of the screen). The problem is that the ZOOM sucks. It causes lines in the picture. So, is there a program out there that will take the DVD's video that I have already archived on my PC as an ISO file I made with DVDShrink and will squeeze the video vertically so that when I play it back via a DVD-R on my portable player, I can use the FULL mode and the video will fill the 16:9 screen?

Thanks!!!!!!!!!

[guns1inger]

DVD Rebuilder. It can crop, resize and re-encode letterbox to true 16:9. It can use CCE or Procoder if you have them installed, or one of a number of free encoders that it installs for you, including qenc and HCenc. HCenc is pretty well regarded, although it can be a little slow. There is a free version and a playware version. Both are very good, so start with the free version and see how you go.

[costanza]

WoW! I know beggars can't be choosers, but that program looks COMPLICATED! DVD Shrink is SOOOOOOO simple, I was hoping there was an easy solution. Thanks anyway though

[guns1inger]

Actually, DVD Rebuilder is pretty simple. Most of the options you don't need to worry about. Believe me, this is the easy solution. The only other way is to do by hand what rebuilder does for you, including avisynth scripts, demux, remux etc.