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| Thread ID: 99353 | 2009-04-29 00:54:00 | Wide movie, Windows Media Player | Mike S (1766) | Press F1 |
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| 769325 | 2009-04-29 00:54:00 | I recorded a wide movie off MGM on Sky, onto DVD. Whilst sick in bed I watched it using Windows Media Player in my newish Toshy Tecra A9 (running Vista). How do I make the picture lose it's narrow look and expand out to fill the wide screen? Or is this beyond WMP? Is there a free program I could download to watch wide movies 'properly'? | Mike S (1766) | ||
| 769326 | 2009-04-29 00:58:00 | VLC (www.videolan.org). you can change the aspect ratio via video->aspect ratio to what ever you want, 16:10 fills the screen. |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 769327 | 2009-04-29 00:58:00 | You can zoom in, but that will mean you will lose part of the image. The movie was probably 16:9 but your laptop is 16:10 EDIT:The method GameJunkie posted will work but will take away a bit of the sides Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 769328 | 2009-04-29 01:59:00 | What you want is the Free Windows media Player classic / Home cinema. You can download it from This site here (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) - It has a LOT more control than VLC and will play almost any format. What I do is extract out the contents to a new folder, call it WMPC, then drop that folder in the program Files, open it, and locate the mplayerc exe Example (www.imagef1.net.nz) - create a shortcut to desktop. To make the screen wider, while the movie starts, tap the number 8 key, and the screen will widen to what you want. Hit the Number 2 key and it narrows the screen, same with 4& 6 makes the screen sides move in or out. Thats only a few of the adjustment you can make. Some of the Adjustments (www.imagef1.net.nz) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 769329 | 2009-04-29 03:14:00 | Try as I may I cannot locate anything like video->aspect ratio in my WMP environment. In fact it seems to be somewhat primitive, particularly compared to Office 2007 I'm running. My WMP seems pretty-much as it's been for decades; I don't think it featured in any of MS's up-grade rounds! Thanks for the comments guys. Mike S |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 769330 | 2009-04-30 00:42:00 | Hi Mike S, GameJunkie was talking about in VLC, you have the ability to change the Aspect Ratio, not in WMP. Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 769331 | 2009-04-30 06:14:00 | Thanks for the hint. Have VLC now and about to try. Mike |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 769332 | 2009-04-30 06:32:00 | 'an it works beautifully, of course! Impressive! I hate squished up pictures! Thank you kindly Mike |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 769333 | 2009-04-30 06:33:00 | cool :) | GameJunkie (72) | ||
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