Widescreen XVID Movies Play Squashed on 4:3 TV

[paulzy]

No ideas?

I turns out everything I record and play back has the same problem now too, not just XVID avis. the stuff I record as well

[gEd]

Also its not just the image that is being compressed, all the GBPVR menus are as well.

So everything to do with gbpvr is squashed? The menus, recordings and avi's?

I cannot see how divx could have anything to do with the gbpvr menu's getting messed up. I suspect that the cause is somewhere else.

What about the windows desktop, does this look ok?
What resolution are you running windows at?
it this on a tv or a computer monitor?
do you have a tv AND monitor both connected?

compare the <!-- zoom control --> settings in your config.xml with those in the config.dont.edit.me.xml.

[paulzy]

I can understand how its not DIVX related but honestly, I had everything working (for months) then I watched an XVID avi and it was fine, installed the divx update, and watched the same XVID file again, and the problem appeared. It is temporarily patched when I cycle F7 to "letterbox". But I exit, and reopen GBPVR and I'm back to square 1.

The menus are fine. they are being presented correctly, as soon as a recording or a video library file starts, the image, and the surrounding GBPVR layer with the timline, and the show description, are all squashed just like the screenshot on post #1

I run it on a "second monitor" which is a 640x480 TV connected via s-video. But this has worked for months now with no problems.

I'll check the zoom control settings when I get home tonight

[gEd]

check your log file to identify which decoder is being used when you watch a recording.

Also try testing it out on the primary display.

try switching from VMR to overlay in the config.exe.

[sub]

It sounds like the divx decoder is trying manage the aspect ratio itself, which is interferring with GB-PVR's aspect ratio control. We've seen this before with a couple of MPEG2 decoder, but these luckily had the ability to disable this, allowing GB-PVR to do the aspect ratio control.

I probably wouldnt be able to tell from the logs, but zip and attach them anyway and I'll take a look.