How to change video size

[shashgo]

I have a video file that is basically cinemascope (where the top and bottom regions of the tv screen are black borders and the people on the screen look like midgets)

Is there a way, by using tmpgenc or something to stretch the video vertically so that the top and bottom borders dissapear and the characters appear normal?

[Krispy Kritter]

A description of aspect ratios can be found here: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=174200

To change it, just open your file in tmpgenc, use full video processing, then choose your codec and aspect ratio.

You will of course lose some video quality, but that is the price you pay for wanting to change the original format.

[guns1inger]

You can't stretch the video and have the players look normal. If you want to fill the screen then you have to zoom in, cut off the sides (up to 30% of the image) and live with a softer image. You also run the real risk of losing action and having characters talking to people you can't see, because you cut them out of the image.

[Scorpion King]

In Tmpgenc Settings - double click "clip frame" on the Advanced Tab - then "arrange Settings" then select "No Margin Keep Aspect Ratio". You should be able to see what is happening to your file. It will be full screen (all around) with the sides trimmed off. Should give you what you are looking for. lol

Good luck.

[AlanHK]

Click the "Zoom" button on your remote.

The result will be at least as good as reencoding the file, and you can zoom back out when you want to see stuff on the sides of the frame that would be lost if you ran it full frame cropped the whole time.

I do this occasionally, such as when watching a film shot in widescreen that actually has most scenes as two talking heads in the middle.

[theewizard]

do you want to play it on the PC, then open it with 'media player classic'

there are functions there that will stretch the video vertically, pushing 8 on the key pad after number lock, you'll find it in the menus under 'view'

uncheck 'keep aspect ratio' and then find the menu with the control listings for stretch

this does not solve the problem of watching it on the DVD player

for that you will have to re-encode the file

convertXdvd will stretch it, but i think you need to crop the gray bars off and then stretch the remaining screen to the correct height