mpg playback - aspect ratio & Full screen

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paul_ahb
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mpg playback - aspect ratio & Full screen

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Hi, I'm new here :)

Playback of movie files seems to work well with most file types except for Digital TV Broadcast captures.

The resolution of these mpg files does not match the aspect ratio that they are supposed to be played with. ie the people are squished from the sides and look tall and skinny. I don't know much about how they are encoded, but I know that players like zoom player and media player classic use the aspect ratio to produce the correct aspect ratio.

Is is possible to force a video playback to be full screen? The closest I can get is a big white boarder around the edges of a video. It would be nice to have the video stretched so there is no border.
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Re: mpg playback - aspect ratio & Full screen

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paul_ahb wrote:Playback of movie files seems to work well with most file types except for Digital TV Broadcast captures.

The resolution of these mpg files does not match the aspect ratio that they are supposed to be played with. ie the people are squished from the sides and look tall and skinny. I don't know much about how they are encoded, but I know that players like zoom player and media player classic use the aspect ratio to produce the correct aspect ratio.
Do you have a little sample?
Is is possible to force a video playback to be full screen? The closest I can get is a big white boarder around the edges of a video. It would be nice to have the video stretched so there is no border.
Ok
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Post by paul_ahb »

I have produced a 1/10sec sample (~350KB).

You can download it from:
http://www.geocities.com/paul_ahb/shorttest.mpg

I have to say that your player decodes these files very quickly (much faster than others do), the main problem is the aspect ratio. If this can be resolved then I would have a number of other requests regarding mpg playback.

thanks for yhe attention :)
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paul_ahb wrote:I have produced a 1/10sec sample (~350KB).

You can download it from:
http://www.geocities.com/paul_ahb/shorttest.mpg

I have to say that your player decodes these files very quickly (much faster than others do), the main problem is the aspect ratio. If this can be resolved then I would have a number of other requests regarding mpg playback.
Ok, thanks. The playback seems to be good, i have a 768x576 video size... like media player
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Post by paul_ahb »

Old Versions of Windows Media Player did not playback using the derrived resolution either. Could you be using an old version of WMP?

I have uploaded two new files.
http://www.geocities.com/paul_ahb/mpc.gif
http://www.geocities.com/paul_ahb/xnview.gif

mpc.gif show how Media Player Classic (Not Windows Media Player) renders the aspect ratio. xnview.gif shows how xnview renders the aspect ratio.

I think it is clear in these pictures that xnview is rendering the aspect ratio different to media player classic (16x9).

A link to allow you to downlaod MPC (Media Player Classic):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=227046

Paul
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