How to put thick black border around video?

[skylights]

I have a TV that cuts off the sides of my AVIs/DIVXs when I play them with my DVD player. I cannot narrow the picture from the TV, it is very old. What is the easiest/best way to fix an AVI so that the whole picture fits on the screen? A thick black border? If so, is there any way to do it without re-encoding the entire file? I'm a total newbie to encoding. Thanks.

[manono]

Hi-

What is the easiest/best way to fix an AVI so that the whole picture fits on the screen? A thick black border?

Yes.

If so, is there any way to do it without re-encoding the entire file?

It'll have to be completely reencoded.

[jagabo]

Or you could get a new TV that has a no-overscan option.

[skylights]

OK. Is VirtualDub the easiest, then? I tried re-encoding my file with VD but I couldn't get the file anywhere near the target file size. I'm using the XviD codec.

[jagabo]

File size = bitrate * running time

Use a bitrate similar to the source.

[Maikeru-sama]

Or you could get a new TV that has a no-overscan option.

Interesting, I didn't know they had TVs with this option.

[jagabo]

Or you could get a new TV that has a no-overscan option.

Interesting, I didn't know they had TVs with this option.

It's mostly on 1080p HDTVs. Samsung calls is "Just Scan" (each pixel of a 1920x1080 source is mapped 1:1 with a pixel on the display).