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Poster: | akb | Date: | Aug 15, 2006 1:30pm |
Forum: | movies | Subject: | Re: Downloaded MPEG-2s are stretched vertically... |
What software are you using to view these movies? The Archive recommended viewer is VLC which you can download from videolan.org.
If you give the url of a movie that you are experiencing this problem with it would be possible to verify if my guess is accurate.
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Poster: | Spaced | Date: | Aug 15, 2006 2:00pm |
Forum: | movies | Subject: | Re: Downloaded MPEG-2s are stretched vertically... |
This post was modified by Spaced on 2006-08-15 21:00:23
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Poster: | Andy Sly | Date: | Aug 15, 2006 2:17pm |
Forum: | movies | Subject: | Re: Downloaded MPEG-2s are stretched vertically... |
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Poster: | Gryphon | Date: | Aug 31, 2006 3:56am |
Forum: | movies | Subject: | Re: Downloaded MPEG-2s are stretched vertically... |
Pull down the Tools, menu and click on Options...
The Options window pops up. Click the Devices tab and wait for the device list to load. Click once on Display, then click the Properties button.
You should now see the Display Properties window and on it a box labeled "Pixel aspect ratio"
Most of the stretched video is at the new 'widescreen' ratio of 16-to-9 (16:9). The Aspect Ratio for that is 0.5625 (which is 9 divided by 16), so set the "horizontal pixels per vertical pixel" to 0.562.
The video should now play correctly.
NOTE: You will have to reset "horizontal pixels per vertical pixel" back to 1.0 to watch your other videos, or they will look too wide!
Apparently, 'aspect ratio' is not stored in the video format, or Win Media Player doesn't read it correctly.
- Would someone on the archive.org staff care to weigh in on this issue?