Cropping, commonly known as black-bar removal is used to remove black borders from DVD video content.

The “Conversion” tab in DVD Catalyst Global Settings shows options that affect various aspects of the conversion.

Omnia users
by Carlos   [...]

It’s always been possible to cobble together a couple of free, open source tools to rip and compress DVDs into playable files on the Treo. Video clips like mpeg, avi and mp4 files will often play on the Treo with nothing more than the free TCPMP player and its codecs.

As 2004 drew inexorably towards its conclusion, one of the much hyped holiday gifts rightly or wrongly was the Personal Video Player or PVP.
The PVP ideal pushed by the clout of the likes of Microsoft and its Media Centre platform is designed to herald in the adoption of on-demand video. This in theory allowing you [...]

One of the commonly asked questions we receive is why there are black bars when you watch video on a portable device. To explain this, there are a few things that we need to explain first.