Tom Metro wrote: > > > Roger Heflin wrote: >> ...were both talking about zoom on the widescreen TV itself to make a >> 4:3 letterbox display go full screen... > ... >> Currently I take a HDTV 16:9 convert it, crop it to just the signal >> and then center it back to in the center of the 4:3 display >> (resulting in 4:3 letterbox) and then use the TV's zoom function to >> make this appear to be full screen widescreen. > > That process obviously throws away resolution. Does your TV support > anamorphic video? If so, and you're going to bother switching modes on > your TV anyway, then you should be encoding your video so the 16:9 > picture completely fills the screen of a 4:3 TV and appears vertically > strteched. One of the modes on your 16:9 TV ought to be able to stretch > that back, while avoiding the loss of resolution.
Yes, currently it would be losing resolution, the picture looks reasonable though. It does support stretching a 4:3 to widescreen, but currently almost all of my video is true 4:3, or 4:3 letterbox so it is much simpler to re-encode just the hdtv stuff that I must re-encode to get to play and not mess with the large amount of 4:3 stuff I ready have, and am recording on a daily basis. Most of my day-to-day recordings are analog. It would make sense to add a option to the transcode script to do either fit all to standard 4:3 (already there) or fit all to 16:9. > > -Tom > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list Mvpmc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
