How to make ffdshow remove black bars by scaling?

[erik1958]

I am playing analog 16/9 (with black bars above and below) on a 16/9 TV with ffdshow
How can I tell ffdshow to zoom the picture in vertical direction to make the black bars disappear?
Whatever i do they do not disappear.
Or can I use another DSHOW MPEG2 decoder that can do the vertical zoom?

[guns1inger]

If the file is 16:9 and had borders then the video is wider than 16:9. The only way to make it fill the screen is to either stretch it so everything is tall and thin, or crop off the edges until you get a 16:9 AR. if you play back footage that is wider than 16:9 then the decoder or the Tv will put the bars in anyway to make it fit sensibly.

So what is the true AR of the footage you have ?

FFDShow has a range of tools, from simply cropping to resizing and aspect ratio adjustments. However you have to understand what your source is before you can determine what you have to change.

[draven1968]

MediaPlayer Classic (which works through ffdshow) press numeric key '9' and that will increment zoom,
to reset to native aspect press '5'