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Okay, so I've got an AVI I downloaded of a television program, and I'd like to burn a VCD of it so it can be played in a DVD player. The problem is that the AVI has frame dimensions of 720x432. In other words, it's widescreen but without the black bars at the top and bottom. I've got a program to convert it to MPEG, but, when I burn it to the CD and play it on the TV, the image is stretched vertically (or compressed horizontally, if you like) to fill the TV's aspect ratio. So everything ends up skinny.
Does anyone know of a program (a free one, obviously) that I can use to add the black bars to fix the aspect ratio? Or, if there's a better solution, I'd be open to that. Thanks.
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I thought VirtualDub had a feature for that, but I've never used it.
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Yup. Open your file, go the Video menu, select Filters, click on Add, pick the "resize" one from the list, press the OK button, check the "expand frame and letterbox image" box, enter the value you need for 4:3 in the "Frame height" field, hit OK again, and re-encode.
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Okay, I got VirtualDub and did what you said, and I think that's done it. It didn't like the audio track, so I ended up with some synch problems, but I think I've got it sorted out. Thanks.
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