apple tv not filling screen

[nicpec]

I have seinfeld dvds im ripping to itunes to watch on apple tv on my 42" sony. When i watch the dvd, the whole screen is filled, when I burn with the apple tv preset I get bars on the sides. How do i adjust so that the burned version fills the whole screen like the dvd version does. THanks.

[nightstrm]

Moved to more appropriate section...

Your DVD player or the TV is apply some sort of stretch mode to the image; you need to do the same for the AppleTV signal. The AppleTV does not have any stretch modes built-in, so you're going to have to hope that your TV can do this for HD signals.

You could have Handbrake custom crop the image to fill a 16x9 screen, but I think you'll end up with a lot of chopped off heads.

[Chris_BBR]

Already discussed here: http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9901

Cheers, Chris

[nicpec]

stretch option on the tv's remote did the trick. Thanks.

[sdm]

why would you want to do this?
If the video was intended to be 4:3, stretching it to 16:9 will distort the image.
Black bars are better than fat heads...

--sdm.

[Chris_BBR]

why would you want to do this?

Because 720x576 can equally be 4:3 or 16:9. Sometimes the movie doesn't carry information as to which aspect ratio should be used (e.g. my old Sky satellite box outputs both indiscriminately) and one has to adjust the aspect ratio from the TV remote, as nicpec found.

However, if HandBrake isn't told what aspect ratio the 720x576 output should be, then it'll encode a 16:9 movie as 4:3. AppleTV doesn't have a 'stretch' button to play that output 'correctly', and my TV at least can't adjust the ATV's HDMI feed in the same way that it can with broadcast TV or a scart feed, hence the OP's problem, and my solution on the other thread of telling HB to use custom anamorphic.

Cheers, Chris

[Deleted User 11865]

Because 720x576 can equally be 4:3 or 16:9. Sometimes the movie doesn't carry information as to which aspect ratio should be used (e.g. my old Sky satellite box outputs both indiscriminately) and one has to adjust the aspect ratio from the TV remote, as nicpec found.

nicpec is encoding DVDs. DVDs carry aspect ratio information - if HandBrake encodes the DVD as 4:3, that's because the DVD is 4:3.

[sdm]

why would you want to do this?

Because 720x576 can equally be 4:3 or 16:9. Sometimes the movie doesn't carry information as to which aspect ratio should be used (e.g. my old Sky satellite box outputs both indiscriminately) and one has to adjust the aspect ratio from the TV remote, as nicpec found.

However, if HandBrake isn't told what aspect ratio the 720x576 output should be, then it'll encode a 16:9 movie as 4:3. AppleTV doesn't have a 'stretch' button to play that output 'correctly', and my TV at least can't adjust the ATV's HDMI feed in the same way that it can with broadcast TV or a scart feed, hence the OP's problem, and my solution on the other thread of telling HB to use custom anamorphic.

Cheers, Chris

okay, but in the case of the OP, afaik Seinfeld dvds are 4:3 and Handbrake would know that I'd say.
--sdm.
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[Chris_BBR]

You may well be right. But the OP wanted to stretch their ATV output, and we gave them various means of achieving that.

Cheers, Chris