Is there software available that will remove right/left black bars from a video file?
I recently got an HDTV card (ATI).
I have been recording TV shows with it.
Most of the local affiliate broadcasters are always broadcasting in wide-screen, whether or not the source is full- or wide-screen.
Thus, when the source is full-screen, the broadcaster sends black bars on the right and left. In doing so, my capture card, also records those black bars.
During playback on a full-screen display, I get the video as a smaller box inside the display (black bars on all four sides).
My capture card doesn't seem to have an option for capturing only the full-screen portion of a wide-screen broadcast.
I think my only option to avoid a small box, is to use some video editing software to crop, but I cannot find any such software.
Xbox 1.6 Executor3 EvoX 120gb
Custom white case, controler port and power button blue LED mods.
AMD Athlon XP 2.2gig, 120gb 7200rpm HD
512mb PC2700 ram, Delta Audiophile soundcard.
27" HD LCD, 450w dolby digital system.
>I think i am reading your question right, but if i go off the track correct me.
>Firstly by 'full screen' do you mean 4:3(as in not widescreen)
Yes
>Are you recording direct from you HDTV card or are you using it as a capture card and recording from an external source like a digibox?
Directly from the HDTV card
>And the full screen display, is that your PC monitor?
I may have not worded that well enough: When I burn off the captured video onto a DVD, and play it back on a set top DVD player onto a 4:3 TV, the actual desired video has black bars on all four sides.
Xbox 1.6 Executor3 EvoX 120gb
Custom white case, controler port and power button blue LED mods.
AMD Athlon XP 2.2gig, 120gb 7200rpm HD
512mb PC2700 ram, Delta Audiophile soundcard.
27" HD LCD, 450w dolby digital system.
The recording is just as the broadcast is, widescreen with black bars on the right and left.
I've used AviSynth with this script:
LoadPlugin("PathTo\MPEGDecoder.dll")
MPEGSource("MPEGFile.mpg")
Crop(88,0,-88,0)
this will crop my 720x480 file to 544x480.
with the .avs file, I load it into TMPGEnc rather than VirtualDub because I'm trying to create an mpeg file to burn onto dvd. TMPGEnc will recode the video back to 720x480, with no black bars at all.
This is a functional answer. I wish there was a single program that would take the .mpg file and crop it, rather than having to use another intermediary file. I had taken my captures from my tv card, right to TMPG DVD author and burn a DVD with out any other programs....so much extra time to use another software.
