Resizing

[tonay]

Hi

Is there anyway to resize an amorphic (I am most likely using the wrong term but it is something to this extent so I hope you understand what I'm trying to say) DVD to remove the top/bottom bars when it plays on a wide screen tv?

For example: Revenge of the Sith, Nightmare Before Christmas.

I hate using the zoom feature and losing some of the picture. I have a CRT RPTV and fear burn in from the bars.

Thanks guys

[blutach]

You can change the attributes to P&S. This goes against most people's wants, as you will crop out part of the widescreen.

Rip your disk. Open it in PgcEdit. Find the title of the movie and right click on it. Choose Domain Stream Attributes. Click Automatic Pan & Scan. OK. Save and Burn.

Regards

[tonay]

Ok

Blu: Which do you personally think is the better option?

[r0lZ]

This way, you don't have to reencode the video. No quality loss. No tedious and long processing.
But take care: if you need to keep the subpics, verify that they are still in the visible part of the image.

You can even set both the Pan & Scan and the Letterbox flags in the domain streams attributes dialog, and switch the display modes with the setups menu of your standalone player. (But some very cheap players don't have this option.)

[blutach]

Good point r0lZ on the subbies - esp on Revenge of The Sith. You will need to program the P&S section of the subtitle stream and then look at the subbies with DVDSubEdit.

For me, I would never use P&S. Ever.

Regards