The letter box effect when playing back a .avi

The letter box effect when playing back a .avi

Do you just have to live with it? its annoying as fuck that you lose 30% of the your tv screen.

Can you do anything about it or is it just a after effect of converting the movie down?

films aren't filmed in 16:9 ratio which is the telly width

but they dont seem as bad when playing straight from original dvd? .avi files are much worse?

dvd's are encoded as anamorphic and crop the screen

so i cant do anything? diff dvds are coming out diff ratios some are ok some are terrible esp on smaller teles

can i change the format of OLD tv series that appear squashed in the middle (ie reverse of letterbox) they are coming out like a perfect square but still 30% of the screen is going to waste

not sure, other than re-encoding using something like TMPGenc, and cropping the screen size

You can adust it. I think it's next to the conversion settings button in DVD Fab. 'Crop Settings' or something.. it will let you choose.. and gives you an example of the sizes. Have a fiddle around with it.

when i do this the "preview mode" dosnty show any changes tho?

I've never had any problems like this with DVD Fab.. although I do watch them on a square screen. They've never been too squashed or too stretched though.. cropping just cuts bits off, as opposed to squashing it all up afaik. I always leave mine at about 700x400.. although it depends on the resolution of the source video.

I'm in the middle of downsizing an avi atm so I can't check..