setting for widescreen TVs

[Michael Ghez]

Hello.
It would be really great if VLC could modify the aspect ratio of movies, 
so that we could use the full resolution of widescreen (16/9) TVs.
This process  is called anamorphosis. The picture appears vertically 
stretched when playing on a standard (4/3) set, but is perfect on a 16/9 
TV

- Most DVDs are already anamorphic, so could we bypass the stretching 
that VLC is doing automatically
- for other sources (DivX, MPEG), let r be the original aspect ratio of 
the movie, R the anamorphed (?) movie aspect ratio
we have R=(3/4)xr
for instance a 640x272 (cinemascope, r=640/272=2.35) will be displayed 
with a 2.35x(3/4)=1.76 aspect ratio (640x362).


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