Posted by Aphelion on 01/28/07 00:58

Can't your player shrink the image so that it resembles 4:3? My Panasonic
does that for the purpose of allowing 4:3 material to fill the wide screen
with minimal side bars.


Kyle


"Kay" <kay@kay.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, my brother-in-law gave us his wedding dvd but the genius
> photographer managed to take the 4:3 original and encode it on the DVD
> as 16:9, so that it plays only as a stretched letter box on a
> conventional player or even PowerDVD (unless I hit ignore aspect
> ration on PowerDVD and resize the window). If I use a player with a
> digital output into my HDTV monitor then I can see the proper format.
> Anyway, can anyone point me at some tools (if it's even possible) to
> rip the DVD and reburn it in 4:3 format (or set the 4:3 flag or
> whatever I need to do)?
> Nothing is encrypted.
> rgds

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