2006-03-24, 04:32 PM
Hi,
I have been looking into a way to get widescreen material recorded by GBPVR to play on a 4:3 tv with no widescreen mode, but in letterbox mode.
Anyone know how to do that?
This is via the MVP by the way. I have just tried out a freeview recording and it seems to display it, but crops the left & right of the 16:9 images, leaving the middle.
Ideally, i would like to see the black bars, to be sure i am not missing anything.
Obviously the easiest solution would be to replace the 4:3 tv with a 16:9 one, but i don't want to do that just yet.
I tried playing the MPG file in VLC and that seems to auto-detect when the picture is in widescreen and change it's window size, whereas power DVD doesn't do that. This is within the same MPG file !
I know there is a DAR (Display Aspect Ratio) flag for an mpeg stream, but that is on a per file basis.
Thanks.
I have been looking into a way to get widescreen material recorded by GBPVR to play on a 4:3 tv with no widescreen mode, but in letterbox mode.
Anyone know how to do that?
This is via the MVP by the way. I have just tried out a freeview recording and it seems to display it, but crops the left & right of the 16:9 images, leaving the middle.
Ideally, i would like to see the black bars, to be sure i am not missing anything.
Obviously the easiest solution would be to replace the 4:3 tv with a 16:9 one, but i don't want to do that just yet.
I tried playing the MPG file in VLC and that seems to auto-detect when the picture is in widescreen and change it's window size, whereas power DVD doesn't do that. This is within the same MPG file !
I know there is a DAR (Display Aspect Ratio) flag for an mpeg stream, but that is on a per file basis.
Thanks.