#16 9 LETTERBOX MOVIE#
#16 9 LETTERBOX TV#

You want playback on a 16:9 TV from a standalone player. You've mentioned you've seen these, as many of us have.

#16 9 LETTERBOX MOVIE#

Obviously, a 'widescreen' movie will have less letterboxing with a DAR of 16:9 than 4:3, though there is nothing preventing the author/encoder from choosing unwisely. The amount of letterboxing encoded in the video stream will depend upon the DAR, and will depend upon the original content's aspect ratio. This selection is regardless of the original content's aspect ratio, which could be one of many different aspect ratios. NTSC 720x480 pixels (NTSC), and the author/encoder selects one of two Display Aspect Ratios (DARs) 4:3 or 16:9. Here's a level set on DVD aspect ratios - please forgive me if this is stuff you already know.Ĭommercial DVD video is in one of two resolutions. Methodologies = procedures and tools you might use in encoding and/or playback. I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you mean by methodologies. As for file formats it would be great if you can do this straight from the. That’s why I asked if there a tool that would allow you to crop without the re-encoding part. I’ve been reading posts about this subject and I read that people have done this using an AviSynth script and then re-encoding with CCE/TEMPGec, which is what I don’t want to do because aside from taking a long time to encode, some movies are less than 4.47GB and I suspect I would be loosing quality for nothing. The reason is simply because I hate this type of encoded movies, because when you watch them on a regular 4:3 tv you get really big black bars on top and bottom of the tv and I heard that when you watch these movies on a widescreen tv (I don’t have one yet) you get black bars on all 4 sides unless you zoom in, that sucks. What I would like to do is convert a 4:3 letterbox movie to a 16:9 widescreen since 16:9 widescreen movies with a aspect ratio of 2.35:1 can be viewed as 1.85:1 with the picture slightly stretched vertically. I’ll try to explain more clearly now.įirstly I’m talking about DVD movies, I’ve seen 3 types of aspect ratios on dvds, 4:3(full screen) 16:9 (anamorphic widescreen with aspect ratios of either 1.85:1 or 2.35:1) and 4:3 (letterbox with display aspect ratio of 2.35:1). I don’t know much about this subject as I just recently started backing up my dvds.

16 9 letterbox