modify the crop/scale manual?

gonijn · **14th January 2006, 04:25 AM**

Hello Arkay,

Thank you for this awesome piece of software. It seems that Crunchie can do something for me that I get not done myself.

I am from Holland and broadcasts here are half 4:3, half 16:9. The card I use is a Haupauge PVR500. It will always use 4:3 for capture. No problem here, but it look kinda stupid to look at a plasma with two black bars on either side.

I tried crunchie here and here are my findings:
If a show is in 16:9 and captured by PVR500 the DVRMS is in 4:3 bar on top and bottom. Crunchie (no force 4:3) will correct this to 16:9, without the bars. Just what I wanted. It is perfect for a 16:9 screen.
If a show is in 4:3 fullscreen, the PVR500 will capture it 4:3 fullscreen. If I use crunchie (force 4:3) a perfect 4:3 avi is produced. Looks not so nice on the plasma, those bars are still there.

Nothing special here, but is a have crunchie take on the 4:3 fullscreen (no force 4:3) it will produce a 16:9 file. Looks good on the plasma, no bars. The picture is scaled down from 4:3 to 16:9 (wide faces

).

Finally my question; is there an option to not scale, but only crop some off the top and bottom to get the 16:9 output I like?

Hope I make some sense writing this down, if not please ask for more details if needed.

Thanks

arkay · **14th January 2006, 09:38 AM**

Hi gonijn,

Yes, it makes sense. But no, sorry, there is no way currently to do that with Crunchie.. You'd be throwing away an aweful lot of picture information.

I would assume that they broadcast 4:3 over there within a 16:9 stream as they do here. Scaling that up to full 4:3 then cropping top and bottom to get 16:9 would mean you'd have very little left.

I could add such a feature in v2 (if it ever gets started). I'll certainly keep it in mind. For now though I'm afraid you'll have to put up with those bars at the sides or just use the zoom features on the plasma and within MCE to watch it full screen and not stretched.

Cheers,
Arkay.

gonijn · **14th January 2006, 10:02 AM**

Hi Arkay,

Thank you for you quick reply. Working with the "zoom4" function within mce to view them. Will have to work with force 4:3 to keep recordings consistant.

Thanks again for making Crunchie

Regards,

Gonijn