Help to stretch video

[adhouse13972]

Hi

I am new to this and am trying to stretch a video that is not at correct aspect ratio. Can anyone hep? I want it to be normal 4:3 if poss. Here is a pic of the video:-

[Baldrick]

If you want to reconvert then you basicly just crop the black borders and resize to 4:3 size like 640x480, 320x240. Use for example avidemux, open your video, under video choose a video codec like xvid, under filters add the crop filter to remove the black borders and then add resize filter to resize to a 4:3 size, last save as a new avi.

[jagabo]

Depending on the container and video codec, you may be able to set the Display Aspect Ratio flag to make the video display with the correct aspect ratio. This will be fast and there will be no quality loss. For Divx/Xvid AVI try MPEG4Modifier. Try setting the DAR to 16:9. That looks about right.

[adhouse13972]

Depending on the container and video codec, you may be able to set the Display Aspect Ratio flag to make the video display with the correct aspect ratio. This will be fast and there will be no quality loss. For Divx/Xvid AVI try MPEG4Modifier. Try setting the DAR to 16:9. That looks about right.

I have tried avidemux but when i try to save the file it crashes. I should have mentioned that the file is an mpeg2 file. Oh and I am trying to convert it so that I can author it to dvd. thanks

[jagabo]

If it is a valid DVD frame size and within DVD spec just tell the DVD authoring software it is a 16:9 MPG file.

[adhouse13972]

If it is a valid DVD frame size and within DVD spec just tell the DVD authoring software it is a 16:9 MPG file.

Yeah I tried that but it just gives a picture with even more black bars above and below like the ones at the side.

[manono]

He said tell the authoring software. You're telling the encoding software (and still doing it wrong).

[adhouse13972]

He said tell the authoring software. You're telling the encoding software (and still doing it wrong).

No, I was placing the file into TMPGenc Authoring software

[jagabo]

Did you tell it the source aspect ratio? You want to set both the source and output aspect ratio. With both set to 16:9 you should see a pillarboxed 4:3 image with the correct aspect ratio. With a 4:3 TV you will see black bars all around but the aspect ratio should be correct.