dvd2mpeg on mvp zooming a WS movie

[Pioneer4x4]

I tried finding a solution to this, but nothing so far.
When I use DVD2MPEG, it maked the .mpg fine, and plays back on the PC fine. But when playing on the MVP, if it is a Wide Screen movie, it fills the screen vertically, and the sides are missing. The aspect ratio is fine, it is just zoomed in WAY too much.

[BigT4187]

Sadly, I have the same problem. Is there a solution to this??

[Ton]

Well, I had the same problem (on a number of movies), and I resorted to manually recoding the files for playing on an MVP.

I created a little tool that automates this, and I uploaded it to the forum. It also handles the widescreen / resize stuff.

Look here: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=9...ostcount=9

It's the first release of this tool, but you could give it a whirl...

[Pioneer4x4]

I'll check it out, thanks. BTW, I am having the problems using XDVD also.

[Pioneer4x4]

The real kick in the pants is, it used to work fine. I don't know what changed. I can only assume it is the mvp dongle.bin.

[Jeff]

Sometime I find that power cycling the MVP cures such problems. I don't know why, but sometimes my MVP zooms in in all videos, including recordings.

Jeff

[Pioneer4x4]

I really don't think that is it. I'll give it a show anyway though. It plays 4:3 stuff OK. (Well reasonably OK, they are zoomed a bit too)

[BigT4187]

Thanks, Ton. I will give it a try.

[hasso]

Ton,
Your little tool works fine for me. Thanks. Anyway of integrating it with XDVD so I can watch DVDs on my MVP so I get the "total picture" in near real-time?