2015-12-30, 16:38
Some DVDs are encoded with black bars on all four sides of the image. It's not that obnoxious, but it would be nice to crop out the bars without re-encoding the video. This appears to be possible with third party video players (e.g. VLC) that respect crop flags found in the .mkv container. The movie file isn't changed, it's just presented differently.
My goal is to turn this:
into this:
by using MKVToolNix to edit the cropping tags of the .mkv container header:
A little searching shows that I'm not the first Kodi user to suggest this feature. While he was able to get perfect cropped playback in VLC, my cropped videos show a green line on the right side of the image. The movie plays fine when I crop the same video with handbrake, so I don't think it's a dimension/aspect ratio problem. Here's a screenshot from VLC of my cropped/tagged .mkv to illustrate:
Here is a sample of the original clip.
Here is a sample of the cropped clip.
Here is a sample of the encoded, cropped clip.
My goal is to turn this:
into this:
by using MKVToolNix to edit the cropping tags of the .mkv container header:
A little searching shows that I'm not the first Kodi user to suggest this feature. While he was able to get perfect cropped playback in VLC, my cropped videos show a green line on the right side of the image. The movie plays fine when I crop the same video with handbrake, so I don't think it's a dimension/aspect ratio problem. Here's a screenshot from VLC of my cropped/tagged .mkv to illustrate:
Here is a sample of the original clip.
Here is a sample of the cropped clip.
Here is a sample of the encoded, cropped clip.
