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  1. you know when some movies are like wide screen effect how do I change that so it fits tv screen as not too keen on wide screen or is this going to make things wrong I see in ifoedit it shows as size 720x576 but how do i know what height and width to make movie
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    Change it in your DVD player menu, if you do everthing is going to have the incorrect aspect. Balls will take the shape of eggs. You don't change the resolution, 16:9 and 4:3 use the same resolution, you cahange the aspect ratio flag. If it's a 16:9 video and you search through the ifo file you'll find instances where the tracks are labled 16:9.

    Don't use ifoedit so I can't tell you exactly what you need to do. I know you can though.
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    Or use the DVD player zoom feature.

    You may loose some of the action on the sides.
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    If you want to convert widescreen into full screen then you will have to extract the video from the DVD structure, crop and zoom the video, re-encode it, and re-author the DVD. You will lose anything happening at the sides of the frame, which on some widescreen movies can be as much as 40% of the visible area. A lot of effort to butcher a film, IMHO.
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    Plus if you crop it to 4:3 on the DVD, it will be useless for watching on a 16:9 TV in the future.

    You will find that most 16:9 TV is still framed to put the essential action in the center 4:3 area. Movies are framed that way in full screen DVD versions but not for widescreen versions.
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  7. ok all point taken and true what u all say just zoom in on dvd player, but I notice some movies the top and side black borders are well wide, its like its a small tv screen size shrunk down with wide black borders.
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    Originally Posted by natty
    and side black borders are well wide, .
    For the most part.....they should only be top and bottom on a 4:3 TV or no borders if it's on a 16:9 TV.
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  9. For the most part.....they should only be top and bottom on a 4:3 TV or no borders if it's on a 16:9 TV.
    how do I find this info out will gspot tell me
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    Only by looking can you tell. If it is 16:9, there will be borders top and bottom. In very few cases will commercial discs have borders up the sides as well, and these would be so thin you might not see them because of overscam. These would be 1.66:1 originals encodes for widescreen TVs. The DVD case will tell you if this is the case.

    If you have large borders up the sides then I would suspect these are poorly encoded/authored bootlegs, not originals.

    Can you post a still or two ?
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    I don't understand what you mean there's nothing to look up. It either is or is not displaying like that.



    1. What is the source and it's attributes, resolution and aspect specifically?
    2. Does the source have black bars on it already that are part of the video?
    3. What are your encoding settings?
    4. Are you creating black bars? <-----this you should not be doing
    5. What are you authoring it as?

    Any one of those things can cause the addition of black bars. Keep in mind 16:9 video and 4:3 share the same resoltion. It's the DVD player that adjust the aspect.
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