what is the easiest way to resize the video playback when backing up disk.

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  1. sfross

    sfross Member

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    When backing up my dvd's I want to make them full screen on my tv but dont know what to do. I have wide screen 47" LCD TV. I try all the aspect ratio's and I still have the bars at the top and bottom. I generally live to clone the DVD's w/ DL disks.
     
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  2. dan9408

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    Well before you burn your movie file just open it with windows movie maker and there is an effect named zoom.If you are just copying a dvd use dvd decrypter to save it as a movie file on your pc and then do the above step.

    #windows movie maker is included in most windows versions if not.

    #windows movie maker - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx

    #dvd decrypter - http://www.soft32.com/download_75586.html

    #im not sure whether its legal to back-up your own dvd's using dvd decrypter so use at your own risk.
     
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    What you are experiencing is due to the source video having an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. This would have large black bars on a normal CRT TV (with 4:3 native aspect ratio) and smaller black bars on a LCD/Plasma TV (with 16:9 native aspect ratio). It is only films originally recorded at an aspect ratio of 16:9 that would fill your entire screen. These would show with smaller black bars on a CRT TV.

    There is a way to permanently make these videos fill the entire screen on your LCD TV (16:9) aspect ratio. You would need to use an application that allows you to crop & resize. You would need to crop the appropriate number of pixels from each of the left and right sides and then resize it. To do this correctly, will require some maths. If you want me to help you, please specify if you are working with PAL or NTSC video. After that, you can re-encode it to a DVD compliant MPEG2 file and author it to a DVD.

    Note: This method will permanently remove some pixels from each side of the video, meaning you will lose a small portion of the video image.
     
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    The idea behind wide screen viewing regardless if on normal tv or not is you get more graphic detailing inside the video rather than viewing at normal aspect ratio,as an example if you have the socom game,go into options & set the viewing to wide mode,as soon as you do you'll see what happens,the dvd movies work on a similar principle
     
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