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by keoladonaghy
Fri May 08, 2020 3:57 am
Forum: Mac
Topic: 16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3
Replies: 14
Views: 2643

Re: 16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3

Nope, it's 3:2. But to the original poster. Handbrake encodes at the original resolution of the source and then adds a tag to tell players to either stretch the video out to 4:3 or 16:9. Hand brake keeps the full resolution of the video. It just so happens that DVDs don't use square pixels when pla...
by keoladonaghy
Wed May 06, 2020 5:38 am
Forum: Mac
Topic: 16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3
Replies: 14
Views: 2643

Re: 16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3

BradleyS wrote: Tue May 05, 2020 1:54 am What I want to know is how you got HandBrake 1.3.1 working on Snow Leopard.
I downloaded it and it ran. Nothing special. Actually, I do recall it prompting me to download a particular library when I tried to run it the first time, but don't recall what it was. Sorry.
by keoladonaghy
Wed May 06, 2020 5:34 am
Forum: Mac
Topic: 16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3
Replies: 14
Views: 2643

Re: 16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3

Mahalo (thanks) for all of the responses. What is strange is that I had previously ripped most of these DVDS, had them on an external HD that went bad, so I'm recreating. When I previously ripped them with and older version of Handbrake years ago, they all played back fine with the same aspect ratio...
by keoladonaghy
Sun May 03, 2020 11:29 pm
Forum: Mac
Topic: 16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3
Replies: 14
Views: 2643

16:9 DVDs all being converted as 4:3

Description of problem or question: I have a collection of DVDs, old, new, commercial and one's I've burned myself, and when I try to convert to MP4, I cannot change the ratio, set crop to manual. I can see that HB appears to be reading the source as 720x480 when it is not, and is cropping the vide...