re-encoding question

[Mauserman]

Hi!

I have this dvd which have black bars all around the video window (it's an old movie). Is it possible to crop the video so that i get rid of the black bars surrounding it, and still keep the dvd structure intact? I really would like to keep the dvd as it is with menues and all, minus the black bars.

The link below show how the movie looks on my tv screen right now.

Thanks!!

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[jagabo]

You have a widescreen movie letterboxed in a 4:3 DVD. Your player is then adding pillarbox bars for playback with the correct aspect ratio on your 16:10 monitor. You can remove the top and bottom borders then reencode as 16:9 DVD but the remaining picture will be blurry and will gain a whole new generation of encoding artifacts.

Assuming you have a PAL DVD, crop 72 lines off the top and 72 lines off the bottom. Resize what's left to 720x576. Encode as 16:9 MPEG2 for DVD.

Some players and TVs have a zoom function designed to do the equivalent during playback.

[Mauserman]

You have a widescreen movie letterboxed in a 4:3 DVD. Your player is then adding pillarbox bars for playback with the correct aspect ratio on your 16:10 monitor. You can remove the top and bottom borders then reencode as 16:9 DVD but the remaining picture will be blurry and will gain a whole new generation of encoding artifacts.

Assuming you have a PAL DVD, crop 72 lines off the top and 72 lines off the bottom. Resize what's left to 720x576. Encode as 16:9 MPEG2 for DVD.

Some players and TVs have a zoom function designed to do the equivalent during playback.

Thanks for the answer.

My player removed the right and left bars at on the fly, which is ok i guess. I think i will leave it at that, cause i don't know how to keep the menues and stuff if i re-encode the dvd in ffmpgx.

Thanks again for your quick answer.