mikkk Posted October 29, 2004 Posted October 29, 2004 I have had an AverMedia DVB-T card for about a year. It records widescreen digital tv ok but not always as smoothly as i would like. It's adequate. However is there a digital card on the market now that zooms the standard 4:3 broadcasts to fullscreen? I want to record some tv shows onto dvd and it's pathetic playing them back with black bars on all 4 sides and just getting a tiny picture in the middle. I know why the black side bars are there but is there any card on the market that will convert the picture with the bars to fullscreen.
renura Posted October 29, 2004 Posted October 29, 2004 However is there a digital card on the market now that zooms the standard 4:3 broadcasts to fullscreen? I want to record some tv shows onto dvd and it's pathetic playing them back with black bars on all 4 sides and just getting a tiny picture in the middle. I know why the black side bars are there but is there any card on the market that will convert the picture with the bars to fullscreen. To the best of my knowledege it has nothing to do with the hardware, it is all in the software you use for displaying. Certainly in terms of viewing live DTV, software used by the Nebula, DVICO, TechiniSat, DNTV Live! and just about all others, as well, can do that. For viewing recordings, many players, such as PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc can zoom/pan-scan to full screen. If you want to record something in a format other other than what is broadcast, I do not believe that is possible. You will, possibly, need to do some post processing to achieve that Cheers Renura
TBAR Posted October 29, 2004 Posted October 29, 2004 Rather than trying to crop the video you can use the DVD player's Pan and Scan feature. Most reasonable software players and set-top-boxes will have this feature. WinDVD6 states the following in its help: "Pan and Scan: Chops off the sides of video to fit the target aspect ratio. It displays video in full screen but discards valuable data meanwhile." You may also want to check some other threads that discuss editing the .ifo file. Hope this helps. TB
mylesau Posted October 29, 2004 Posted October 29, 2004 Do a search on this forum for ifoedit and look for mention of changing pan/scan settings. A good example: ifoedit pan/scan You don't need to do any special encoding, you just need to "tell" your DVD player what the format of the recording is. Note this works on all the DVD players (6) I've been able to test, however I think a few people have reported that it doesn't work on particular DVD players.
Guest Gizmomelb Posted October 29, 2004 Posted October 29, 2004 Hi Mikkk, or if you just want to play the files back on the PC you recorded them on, you could try using Media Player Classic - which has a video 'zoom' function so you can enlarge the picture to full screen and remove the side bars. Having that feature has been requested of Avermedia many times, with all the recent work they've been putting into upgrading the software then there may be the possibility they will incorporate this feature as well.
Strobe Posted October 30, 2004 Posted October 30, 2004 You could use TMPGenc... tell it you want to output to 4:3 DVD and your input is 16:9. Then crop the left and right sides by 87 pixels (from memory). If you have a lot to do, line them all up in a batch operation before you go to bed. Other option is to put it in Adobe Premiere and then zoom to 100% rather than ~70%
mulder71 Posted November 1, 2004 Posted November 1, 2004 I have had an AverMedia DVB-T card for about a year. It records widescreen digital tv ok but not always as smoothly as i would like. It's adequate.However is there a digital card on the market now that zooms the standard 4:3 broadcasts to fullscreen? I want to record some tv shows onto dvd and it's pathetic playing them back with black bars on all 4 sides and just getting a tiny picture in the middle. I know why the black side bars are there but is there any card on the market that will convert the picture with the bars to fullscreen. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> the fusion dvb-t plus has a cropping ability . you can crop all 4 sides of the screen .
joeybloggs Posted November 1, 2004 Posted November 1, 2004 the fusion dvb-t plus has a cropping ability . you can crop all 4 sides of the screen . Please be carefull with terminology. There is a big difference between zooming and cropping.Cropping implies that the frames in the video stream are decoded, 'cropped' and then re encoded. As Mpeg2 is a lossy format this introduces more encoding errors into the stream. AFAIK none of the current DVB-T (or their software) do this. Although it is certainly possible to do it with external software. Zooming is a much simpler solution and doesn't require re encoding the video stream.
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