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Zoom letterboxed DVDs without any extra software
there is absolutely no way that you can make video that is a different aspect ratio than your monitor fill the screen without losing some of the frame or distorting it. you can say whatever you want, but it's not possible.
Zoom letterboxed DVDs without any extra software
I think what chronos is trying to say is if you play a 16:9 movie on a cinematic display normally, you get the big black bars around the picture. By zooming the picture in, you just get the picture on the screen with no distortion. This will not work as well with a 4:3 movie.
Zoom letterboxed DVDs without any extra software
Sorry, I meant chromo not chronos... I meant color not time. <smile>
No, no, no. You don't understand. Look:
This is a screencap of the problem (from my 1920X1200 23" cinema display, somewhat reduced):
http://dna.caltech.edu/~nick/broken-letterbox.jpg Now do you understand how you can zoom the picture without losing anything? There's black on all four sides. Thanks to Anonymous -- this has been bugging me for some time, I can't imagine what [certain programmers] were thinking ... P.s. The screencap is actually from VLC in fullscreen mode, but the Apple DVD player does the same thing and disables screencaps.
No, no, no. You don't understand. Look:
That's totally bizarre. Now i understand the reason why this hint could be useful. However, running on an Apple 20" Display (1680x1050 resolution) with the same aspect ratio of all of their displays I have never had this problem with a widescreen DVD playing back at fullscreen.
Badly produced DVD's
The problem is that these particular DVDs are designed for people with 4:3 screens, who want to see a 16:9 letterboxed image rather than pan and scan. So, every frame of the movie is a 4:3 image with black stripes at top and bottom.
Badly produced DVD's
Anamorphic 16:9 DVDs are 'squashed' into 4:3 and then 'stretched' back to 16:9 by your DVD player, which will either pass it on to your TV as-is, or add black bars at the top and bottom to make it back into 4:3, if you only have a 4:3 TV. |
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