Topic: Sides squeezed image

[joudi]

Well, the title of the thread shows a part of the problem.

It's an "AVI" video file. it's not 16:9, and not even 4:3.

The person on the video looks too tall. So too for the faces of the individuals.

There are side bars limiting (squeezing) the image.

I tried many AVI and K-Lite codecs, nothing yet worked.

Any idea or suggestion?

Thanks...

[Lona]

What viewer are you using Joudi.?

Have you tried viewing it on various viewers.?

[joudi]

I tried many video players Lona. All are giving the same result.

DivX 2.5.4,
RealPlayer 10 (Gold),
Windows Media Player 10,
Power DVD 5,
Winamp 5.03,
G-spot,
Nero Show Time,
Nero Media Player,
 
What other viewers do you mean lona? Is there anyone special?

By the way, it tells on that file that it is DivX 4.  Does that help?

[Lona]

Well, you would think it would work on divx player.  Can't think of what could be wrong with it. Have you tried burning it and viewing it on standalone player to see if that looks better?

Have you tried running it through Dr divx to see if it can better it?

[Sandra]

If you open it in DivX player Joudi and go to video display then aspect ratio, theres an option for custom setting.
It will tell you what it is in originally, in pixels and allow you to change to what you specify.
If you play around with different sizes until you get it where it looks correct then you could run it through something like DR.Divx specifying that actual size or River Pasts Video Cleaner also allows you to select which size you want it, in pixels  

[joudi]

Thanks both cute girls,

Well, I tried your suggestion Sandra, (without much conviction at the start). I chose to play it in 16:9 format. To my astonishment, it worked perfectly.

Why I?m telling I was astonished? Well, because I had three weeks ago an ?AVI? file which was showing as 16:9 without any intervention of my side. It showed both horizontal bars squeezing the image horizontally.

My conclusion was: if this one is 16:9 too, it must show like the other one. Well, it didn?t! I don?t understand the difference if both are 16:9, and everyone shows in a different way.    

Anyway, I tried to convert a part of this file from 16:9 to 4:3 by using ?video perspective? (River Past). It worked and showed normal. The problem is that the new converted image showed less neatness by adding vertical transparent lines. So, I preferred to keep the original and make the needed adjustments on the concerned player while playing it.

Nice to have it sorted.    

Thanks again to both.    

[Simon]

There are different aspect ratios of 16:9 (Widescreen), Joudi.  You have 2:35:1, which is basically a 'letterbox' ratio, where you see black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.  It's possible that your image was stretched vertically to compensate for these, perhaps?  Then you have 1:85:1, which is still widescreen, but closer to the actual 16:9 format of widescreen TVs, so it fits the screen without black bars.  Hope that makes sense, but not sure if it's connected with the issue you had.

 

[joudi]

Yes Simon, I didn't know that before. I thought that, when it is 16:9, that means only not 4:3, and that there are only those two aspect ratios.

In the "video perspective" program, it shows the other options: 2:11, 2:35, 16:9, and 4:3. I never knew the first two.

In DivX you have what is called: the original aspect, Wide Screen (16:9), 4:3, custom aspect and free aspect.

When I put this file on "Custom Aspect", it tells me that the current window is 720:576, and it gives me the choice to suggest another aspect ratio.

[Sandra]

720 x 576 is the standard DVD resolution Joudi, from what I have read, so I would have expected DivX player to have automatically played it back correctly without selecting anything  

[joudi]

Surprisingly Sandra, it didn't. And even power DVD 5 didn't neither.

Strange...no?    

[Simon]

It may just be that whatever coding tells the player software which ratio is it, isn't working properly, or the video is some sort of non-standard ratio, Joudi.  As well as the two mainstream ratios I mentioned, there are lots in between, like 1:78:1, 1:33:1 (Full Screen).