setting for widescreen TVs

[Stephan H=?ISO-8859-1?B?5Q==?=kansson]

On 02-06-06 21.09, "James Green" <jg at jmkg.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday 06 June 2002 11:40 am, you wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I don't know what you're seeing exactly, but when I'm playing a widescreen
> orginal cinematic or anamorphic DVD, and enter fullscreen, the aspect ratio
> is maintained, i.e. the top and bottom are filled with black.
> 
> I'm on Linux, so perhaps you are experiencing a bug with vlc on the Mac?
> 
> Hope this proves useful to you.
> 
> James Green.

I think Michael means that the aspect ratio shouldn't be maintained when
entering fullscreen. It should be vertically stretched on the computer
screen, but on a widescreen TV connected to the computer, the aspect ratio
will be right.
At least that's how I wish it would be.

/Stephan


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