Encoding using Divx author
Hi I'm trying to burn a disk for a stand alone player and I want thevideo to be without the Letterblock black on top and bottom. I use the software but it does not have the 4:3 aspect ratio. what settings can I to achieve this
Thanks! Do you know which aspect ratio to chose?
Thanks! do you know which output aspect ratio should I choose?
At least the best settings to get close to it.
I need it to fit on a normal tv screen
i don't know about getting it to fit a normal screen but heres what i do to remove the black lines.
1) i start divx author and click on "start a new project" new window "add content"
2) on the same same new window on the upper left hand side of the window there is an option that says "settings" click on it and a new pop up window will open.
3) on the new pop up window click on the "video" tab, and some options will open up for you
4) on the "size" options, you wan't to lower the height to a setting of the actual video.
**note** if the video is widescreen your video player will still show black blocks on top and bottom of the screen?
choose a video before checking the settings. :) forgot to mention it.
You'll get letterboxing or pillarboxing if the display aspect of your video doesn't match the display aspect of your TV. For example, if you are trying to view content for a 16:9 widescreen display on a 4:3 TV.
The reason that the video is letterboxed in this case is because the video is so wide that if the player actually resized it to fill the screen top to bottom the sides of the picture would be cut off.
You have a couple of options. One is to re-encode the content, cropping the sides of the picture off so that it fits in a 4:3 aspect display. Any tool that lets you crop the video and output DivX should work. The other is just to change the pixel aspect ratio (the shape of the pixels making up the image) so that they are less wide/more tall. This however has the consequence that objects in the video will appear artificially tall and skinny. You can use MPEG4Modifier to achieve this without re-encoding.
The short story is this: the letterboxing is there to preserve two things: 1) The full picture, and 2) The correct aspect ratio. If you remove it you will either lose part of the picture or distort the picture. My recommendation is to get used to the letterboxing, or if you can afford it, buy a 16:9 TV. Of course, you may still get a little letterboxing on a 16:9 TV if the video display aspect isn't exactly 16:9, but for almost all movies it's extremely close.