16:9 to 4:3 video converter aplication

Hey guys! I just hate those black bars in my dvd's, i just want to enjoy a full screen, any dvd backup program that allow me to change the output from 16:9(widescreen) to 4:3(fullscreen)?

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04
Thanks for your help

Originally Posted by faby1321 Hey guys! I just hate those black bars in my dvd's, i just want to enjoy a full screen, any dvd backup program that allow me to change the output from 16:9(widescreen) to 4:3(fullscreen)?

I don't know a lot about video processing and stuff, but I'm under the impression that the black bars are necessary in order to view a widescreen movie on a fullscreen display without messing-up the image (giving people coneheads, etc). I believe if you want to get rid of the black bars at the top and bottom you'd need to trim the image on the sides, which might give you an even higher level of suckage.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04

Ubuntu 10.04? You must be from the future!

Originally Posted by faby1321 Hey guys! I just hate those black bars in my dvd's, i just want to enjoy a full screen, any dvd backup program that allow me to change the output from 16:9(widescreen) to 4:3(fullscreen)? I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 Thanks for your help

Feisty F. 7.04(sorry)

If you use vlc player you can press the "c" key (or use the menus) to crop your video to the correct aspect ratio. You will lose some of the video, but this would happen even with any video converter.

You can use apt-get install vlc to get it, or you can goto VideoLan.org for more information.

This works for all video formats as well as DVD's.

Hope that helps.

thanks, I'll try VLC.

all players let you change it on the fly
xine right click on video output and go to video>aspect ratio (then just select it
same with gmplayer and smplayer

ffmpeg will do what you want - you can crop, change aspect, etc