VirtualDub will do this AFTER you learn
how to use it...

http://www.virtualdub.org/

you may need to convert to an intermediate format
to resample to the dimensions that you want.

"Rubicon" <rubicon@donot.reply> wrote in message
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> "Rubicon" <rubicon@donot.reply> wrote in message
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> > How can one resize mpeg video clips - are there any free or low-cost
> > re-encoders available for a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine?
> > Some DV videos were encoded on another machine with the wrong size
> > configuration and all the output looks vertically elongated.
> > Unfortunately,
> > the original DV files were deleted in haste.
> > Any insight would be most appreciated.
> > Regards.
> > Rubicon
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>
>
> I don't seem clear to myself!
> What we really want to do is stretch a 4x3 mpeg clip to 16x9.
> Regards.
> Rubicon
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