[jagouar]

I was watching a few shows I have on my computer and some are in widescreen format but were recorded with black bars on top and bottom. It looks really stupid to have black bars on all 4 sides so I was wondering if theres a zoom thing similar to what zoom player has. I really like the easy interface of WMP9 and its better for my mp3 streaming so I was hoping not to have 3 players on my computer (TheaterTek and WMP9)

 

[Phat Phreddy]

not only zoom, but I need anamorphic stretch...


With HD DVD coming out on WMP and people like transmission doing art house movie downloads etcd it is required not optional for me...

 

[DaveFi]

If it doesn't require licensing features for playback, you can try using Media Player Classic or Zoom Player to playback the files.


I'm starting to like MPC more than Zoom Player these days-
http://vobsub.edensrising.com/mpc.php

 

[Phat Phreddy]

I was under the impression that the WMA multichannel would not work under ZP ???

 

[JerryW]

Try YxY?

 

[summit3907]

phat - you are correct. no multichannel wma through anything except wmp. according to blight and others, problem is on the ms side as their format doesnt get passed over directshow correctly. hopefully they will fix this 'feature' in the future.


k

 

[JohnAd]

I'm vaugely looking into this. I think it should be possible to write a video plug-in to handle the aspect ratio stuff properly. When I know more I'll post.


John

 

[MortUK]

I use the resize in FFDSHOW, if you set the aspect ration to 4:3 (even though you have a 16:9 display) then it streaches the picture to full screen.. thus losing the black bars...

 

[MortUK]

you also have to select "no aspect ratio correction" as well as specifying the aspect ratio to 4:3...


Works for me!!!!!!!!!!

 

[freat]

Quote:

hopefully they will fix this 'feature' in the future.

Scheduled to be released along with WMP for Linux.