[nJm]

I've been happily using VLC and Quicktime, although I'd love to have a program that can manually alter the aspect ratio of a video (whether it be a divx file or DVD). I have quite a few TV rips I've downloaded that are either 16:9 video squished to fill a 4:3 window, or are 4:3 videos stretched to fill 16:9 windows. I'd love something that can alter this on the fly to restore them to the correct aspect ratio. On my PC I had a program for my TV Tuner card (Dscaler) which could alter the aspect ratio, and that was fantastic.

Another thing, I'd love to be able to zoom. I have a few DVDs of TV programs that have a 16:9 letterboxed picture (West Wing R2 boxsets). This is really annoying on my 16x10 LCD monitor as I end up with a really small picture in the middle of my screen with black bars top, bottom and sides.

Is there anything out there (or maybe a plugin for VLC?) that can do this?

[Uncle Skeleton]

VLC can do both those without a plugin (there are no plugins for VLC)

Prefs > Video > "Source aspect ratio"
and
Prefs > Video > Filters > Crop

[dlefebvre]

In the same field of interest.

If you have a VOB file with the wrong aspect ration setting, is it possible to change it (using VLC or something else) and save the file whitout doing a cenvertion? If I remember right, aspect ratio is just a tag or flag in the MPEG stream, so you should be able to modify it without converting the file. i could be wrong and it would not be the first time...

[Uncle Skeleton]

http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/EditMpegHeaderIFO.html

[Stradlater]

A surprisingly simple fix, too, is to merely zoom in using the Universal Access setting (System Preferences).

[dlefebvre]

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton

http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/EditMpegHeaderIFO.html

Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try.