Can you get visualhub to do those horizontal blackbars?

[VidHunter]

When I am done converting my avi file to mp4 using visualhub, it becomes 4:3. Is there a way to control and change the aspect ratio with visualhub? I want to add some of those horizontal blackbars when I watch it in fullscreen?


Thanks for your time.

[albloom]

VisualHub only converts. You want MPEG Streamclip to crop
out the black bars. It's free.

[Scav2003]

The Advanced options lets you change the aspect ratio.
using FFMPEG flags -padtop ## and -padbottom ## you can add the bars.

With the right flag, you can even change the color!

[VidHunter]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

albloom: Yeah, Mpeg Streamclip works great.

Scav2003: ohhh, thats sounds awesome. I will definitely try it. If it works, I will save it as a preset so I dont forget the "cheat code" as the dude who wrote visualhub calls it.

How do you change the color? And where do I find these wonderful flags to let me do all kinds of cool stuff in visualhub? Oh and does the flag that says "best H264/AVC for animation" mean better for converting anime?

[Scav2003]

Scav2003: ohhh, thats sounds awesome. I will definitely try it. If it works, I will save it as a preset so I dont forget the "cheat code" as the dude who wrote visualhub calls it.

How do you change the color? And where do I find these wonderful flags to let me do all kinds of cool stuff in visualhub? Oh and does the flag that says "best H264/AVC for animation" mean better for converting anime?

There's also -padleft and -padright which if you're doing fansubbed anime might be useful as fan subbers tend to put the subtitles too far down.

I don't know the flag to change color, but I saw it mentioned at the visualhub forum at techspansion.

[VidHunter]

Do I write it like this "-padtop 6 -padbottom 6" or do I write it as "-padtop 06 -padbottom 06" using 6 as an example or do I write it as "-padtop ## -padbottom ##" with just ##? When I try to input it into the flags, it keeps staying in passing video not matter how long. Is it suppose to take a long time?

[Herve]

Do I write it like this "-padtop 6 -padbottom 6" or do I write it as "-padtop 06 -padbottom 06"

nevermind (but use "-padtop 6"). You must specify the value (6 in your example) in pixels.
color: "-padcolor 000000" (value is hexadecimal)

When I try to input it into the flags, it keeps staying in passing video not matter how long. Is it suppose to take a long time?

no real speed difference(maybe a lose of speed of 5% during encoding? not more), it must be a failure.

bye