I’ve had a problem with a small number of DVDs (not BluRays) where when I rip them (using MakeMKV or HandBrake,) the movie rips in the correct aspect ratio, but has a black box all the way around it. (Note: When I watch them on a normal DVD player hooked to the TV, there is no box - it displays using as much of the screen as possible.) Out of the hundreds of discs in my library that I’ve ripped this way, only three (IIRC) have had this happen.
Is there a way to override this behavior?
You must play the ripped file with a regular desktop video player (e.g. VLC or such) and determine if the video picture contains black borders.
It black borders are there, throw the file into Handbrake and crop the video picture, so no black borders remain in the file.
You can seize the opportunity and make the converted video ‘progressive scanning’ (no player nowadays requires ‘interlacing’ anymore).
That was perfect. I just don’t understand why HandBrake didn’t do this is the first place when ripping them. But since it’s only happened three times so far, it’s a minimal impact.
Thanks for the help!
Handbrake isn’t perfect when it is determining the border dimensions.
I recommend you to always verify Handbrake’s automatically set dimensions.
Particularly if the programme has a changing picture aspect ratio, as is often the case with ‘documentary’ content.
For right now, I am usually ripping stuff using MakeMKV and using FFMpeg to shrink it down as I can easily script it. I use HandBrake when that doesn’t work.
Just found something interesting when trying to fix the borders for one of my movies: When I told it to save using the MKV format, the end result was a thin vertical line with no sound. I tried over and over and once, on accident, I left the default format to MP4 and it came out okay. This has only happened on one of my movies, but thought it was interesting (and frustrating.)
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