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CNK
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 Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:15 am Post subject: Widescreen Question....Handbrake to AppleTV |
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Hi All...
Hope this isn't too silly of a question. I have been ripping my DVD library using the usual MTR/Handbrake workflow. I finally got around to watching a movie streamed to my appleTV connected to a Vizio 42" LCD flatscreen. The movie we was Meet the Parents - Widescreen Edition. Normally when I watch a widescreen movie on my 42" tv using a DVD player I have the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. I actually don't mind that as I enjoy the fact that I am viewing it in widescreen....more viewing area. I ripped the movie using Handbrake (ATV settings with a few minor adjustments such as two pass encoding)......there were no black bars on either the top of the bottom of the screen when viewing on the atv. Is this normal? I haven't done a test yet to see if anything was being cropped horizontally. Basically I just want to be sure that Handbrake is not "changing" anything with the overall viewing area.
thanks!
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g5g5
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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It should remain the same if anamorphic is set to strict and crop to automatic in your picture settings. Was this a double-sided DVD with a full screen version on one side? I've ripped a few of those by mistake before.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| g5g5 wrote: | | It should remain the same if anamorphic is set to strict and crop to automatic in your picture settings. Was this a double-sided DVD with a full screen version on one side? I've ripped a few of those by mistake before. |
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CNK
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| anamorphic is set to strict.....Not sure if I was clear or not in my post....the picture fills up the whole screen on my tv whereas usually I have the black bars when viewing from a dvd player. Definitely was not a two sided disc....have had the same issue before with not reading the very fine writing on the disc...fullscreen/widescreen. So another question.....if anamorphic is set to strict......does this mean I am viewing it "widescreen" only magnified to fill the whole screen as opposed to viewing the dvd through a dvd player? Seems to me then when Handbrake does its encoding thing for the atv it is giving you a better viewing experience over a standard dvd player with its black bars.... |
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g5g5
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| CNK wrote: | | Seems to me then when Handbrake does its encoding thing for the atv it is giving you a better viewing experience over a standard dvd player with its black bars.... |
It really doesn't work that way. You must have encoded with a crop or something. Maybe your TV has a different zoom or AFF (auto full frame) feature enabled for the input your Apple TV is connected to.
Have you tried playing another movie or just Meet the Parents?
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