Kaitrono wrote:VirtualDubMod doesn't show the black borders for either. Can't tell if the footage is actually 720 or 640 though. I don't think VDub tells you the resolution anywhwere. But as soon as i play it on windows media player the black borders appear and the footage still appears to be 640x480. I even tried importing the footage into adobe premiere to see what it would look like, and the black borders show up there too. Strange...
File menu->File information
And since it shows up in WMP but not in VDub, it means it has to do with your DirectShow filters doing the aspect correction without doing a proper display correction. Haali's Media Splitter (for example; also Ligos MPEG filters) does this - annoys me to no end, since it didn't used to. In this scenario, the display dimensions of 720x480 are kept, but the video playback is rendered honoring the aspect flags.
If you open the MPEG-2 in Media Player Classic, or put WMP on fullscreen, do the black borders disappear? If they do, it's just your DirectShow filters, and it's nothing to worry about. This is already what I figure it is anyway, but it bears repeating. Changing your filters *should* fix it, if you remove the ones at fault for this first (note: if it's Haali's, then uninstall it, and reinstall it
without selecting MPEG-PS - then use something else, like the
GPL MPEG-1/2 decoder, for those files).