divx widescreen file playback not widescreen

[nedens]

OK. Although the title might be a little confusing I am having a problem and would greatly appreciate anyones help. I a media center box with the gb-pvr software. However I have a lot of avi (DIVX encode) that are widescreen. However when I play them they get zoomed to fullscreen (cutting of the sides). If I use the "Mediaportal" software it plays them just fine. Is there something I can change to get these widescreen movies to play widescreen because the gb-pvr software is so much faster than the "Mediaportal" software I really want to use it. Again any help is very much appreciated.

[reven]

you can use "ffdshow" to maintain the aspect ratio of the file.

[nedens]

I installed ffdshow and selected it under playback in the configuration program where it says use ffdshow with transcode. It still stretches it though. Is there something else I can try or am I just missing something in the ffdshow configuration.

[nedens]

Never mind I did get it working. I had to check the resize box under ffdshow and then select fast bilinear for the resize option.
Thanks for the help.

[psycik]

Which ffdshow did you install?

i found one on sourceforge and it was dated 2002.

[nedens]

Which ffdshow did you install?

i found one on sourceforge and it was dated 2002.

I can't seem to find the version number anywhere but I do know I downloaded it from the sourceforge website. if you know where to find the version number I can get it for you and let you know. Are you having problems getting the aspect ratio right?

[psycik]

More the date. I've seen some people talking about 2005 dated ffdshow's

Are people getting the alpha, or the last stable (the last stable is dated some time is 2002) I don't know what version it is.

[nedens]

More the date. I've seen some people talking about 2005 dated ffdshow's

Are people getting the alpha, or the last stable (the last stable is dated some time is 2002) I don't know what version it is.

Look here
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm
It looks like the last version of ffdshow is from 12-21-2005
What probably happened is that the programers quite using sourceforge maybe?

[psycik]

yeah maybe, thanks.