On 8/27/05, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've recorded some material from my pcHDTV 3000 unit that I'd like to > burn to DVD. It's 4:3 material. Trouble is, it's got black bars > encoded *as part of the picture frame itself* on the left and right > sides. This seems fairly typical when stations broadcast a digital > version of an analog source. > > Any ideas how I can remove these bars prior to encoding on DVD?
If the black bars are an actual part of the frame and I wanted to remove them, I would open the MPEG2 video in a frame editor (I'd always use VirtualDubMPEG2 in Windows for this) and crop the frame, and then resize the remaining frame back to 720 pixels. I would then serve this videostream back into an MPEG2 encoder tool and then replex the audio/video streams back together. However, if playback is going to be on widescreen device, you may just want to leave the clip 'as-is' as the clip should be played back in 4:3 format. Certain zoom modes on TVs and projectors may also eliminate most of the bars from the clip without having to re-encode the material. > > Also, any ideas how I can encode HDTV content to DVD in general? Again, you'd need to resize and re-encode the video to a DVD-compliant resolution (720x480 for NTSC, 720x576 for PAL/SECAM), choose the audio tracks you want included, and then master the DVD. VirtualDubMPEG2 will let you the resizing, then another tool such as TMPEGEnc will let you encode back to MPEG2 for DVD, and then a DVD authoring tool will give you the ISO file for burning to DVD. You can probably do all this automatically on the CLI in Linux too, hopefully some the Linux video editing crowd can include the info. HTH, Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users