simple removing of letterbox from a xvid

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is there a easy simple way to do this without re-encoding the video file? i do not want any quality loss.

[jagabo]

There's no way to do it without reencoding. If you're worried about bitrate wasted on the black borders -- don't. They take hardly any bitrate to encode.

[TJohns]

No - a re-encode is your only option. And as for quality, if you use the correct output settings it should be pretty much indistinguishable from the original source.

Trevor

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i was fooling around with gknot but its pretty damn confusing. i think i have it set though where i wouldnt lose any of the quality of the rip, guess ill just have to give it a whirl. im trying to make a dvd for a friend who has hi-def, so thats why im so concerned about not losing quality and getting rid of the letterbox.

if only the person ripped the dvd properly to begin with heh

[jagabo]

You don't want to reencode to xvid without borders and then turn around and convert to MPEG2 for DVD. Do it all at once in your MPEG encoder. TMPGEnc for example can crop, resize, and encode all at once. Or filter and frameserve from AVISynth or VirtualDub to your MPEG encoder.

And removing the black border may not be necessary. If the video is wider than 16:9 it will need borders top and bottom for DVD.

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i just use convertxtodvd to make dvds. dont know how to filter and frameserve and have very little knowledge of virtualdub aside from how to split or join files.

[jagabo]

Frameserving is the process of sending video frames from one program to another without saving to an intermediate file.

Filtering and frameserving from VirtualDub is pretty easy. But from what I've read convertxtodvd doesn't support it. It sounds like it will accept AVISynth scripts though. You could install AVISynth and FitCD. FitCD will examine your source video and create an AVISynth script with the appropriate cropping and resizing commands. You then open that script (.AVS) with convertxtodvd as if you were opening an AVI file.