Simon 69

Im looking for a simple application that will allow me to add black bands to an anamorphic widescreen video file (to make 1.78:1/1.85:1 video up to 4:3).

Ive ripped the original DVD and then converted the stream to a DivX compressed AVI file. Unfortunately, it turns out that the MP4 player that Im using doesnt add the required black bands, so while 4:3 aspect ratio files play correctly, anamorphic widescreen films dont.

Any help appreciated.

Sonic'

have you tried Tmpeg ?

Sonic'

or you could try Mpeg4Modifier from Moitah.net

converts etc change aspect ratio etc etc

Jamo

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you got it working then

Simon 69

Yes and no. It works but it doesnt display widescreen videos correctly and more importantly, it keeps deleting the contents of the 'Music' directory (which it duplicates). For a reason that I dont understand, this can be recovered by deleting it through a PC, where the phantom 'Music' directory is too large for the recycle bin. If you cancel the action the contents reappear and you can delete the duplicate directories... The video recorder doesnt work either, but that seems to be a known issue.

Simon 69

Yes: and FlaskMPEG. Neither help unfortunately, although it is years since I have used them properly. I will try 'Mpeg4Modifier', cheers.

Simon

Sonic'

I found it good for removing packed bitsreams so I get flawless playback on my dvd player of divx files, packed bitsreams playback really jerky

It doesnt re-encode either, but it does have AR options, so worth a try as it is pretty quick

Simon 69

Im tinkering with it now, but I cant see how to add simple black bars top & bottom of a 1.78:1 WS file. I need to add these to enable the file to play on a device that doesnt seem to add them automatically (as a DVD player does).

Simon

Sonic'

Sony Vegas and Media Studio will both let you add black bars

neither are free though

MEncoder will also do it, it is free open source linux /mac not sure if there is a windows version

Sonic'

Found a GUI for it MeGUI

And there is a windows version

Simon 69

Its far from user-friendly Steve. I cant see how to add bars to an otherwise-complete .mp4 file?

Sonic'

A quick google found this, not sure if it will help or not

[MEncoder-users] adding black bars to maintain aspect ratio2

failing that tyr and get yourself Sony Vegas

Jamo

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Sony Vegas Pro v8 a Corporate Edition SUN » Torrentspy.com