How to make Windows Media Player run in 16:10 ?

mistating · Post by **mistating** » 27 Nov 2006, 07:16

How can i make videos i watch in windows media player permanently play in 16:10 aspect ? my screen is a Dell 2007WFP using VGA @ 1680x1050

X-Warrior · Post by **X-Warrior** » 27 Nov 2006, 19:27

Simply select fullscreen.

However, many videos are actually 4:3 format with black bars that are part of the video. Nothing you can do about that. If the video is in real widescreen format, WMP will automatically adapt.

scortech · Post by **scortech** » 29 Nov 2006, 21:42

Use VLC there you can choose 16:9, 16:10 and so on :)

DaFox · Post by **DaFox** » 29 Nov 2006, 22:24

Use VLC

Amen.

skeeder · Post by **skeeder** » 29 Nov 2006, 23:16

vlc is good, another good one is gomplayer.

lloydo · Post by **lloydo** » 03 Dec 2006, 02:09

Media Player Classic is probably the best for this as you can freely pan & scan using the number pad (as well as making your own aspect ratio presets).

I often use it to stretch/zoom 16:9 videos to fit fully on my 2007WFP.

Gabbo · Post by **Gabbo** » 03 Dec 2006, 22:04

I vote for Zoomplayer. It totally rocks and has tons of options. You can adjust custom aspect ratios on the fly.

X-Warrior is completely correct though. You are at the mercy of what aspect ratio/dimensions that the source was encoded in.

Pet peeve: When someone encodes a widescreen formatted video WITH the black letterbox borders in the video!

jeffmd · Post by **jeffmd** » 11 Dec 2006, 00:21

vlc makes baby jesus cry.

Zoomplayer on derived mode correctly matches aspect ratios unless the video is badly encoded. But if it is, you can manualy select a view mode to force the video into the correct ratio.

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 11 Dec 2006, 01:14

Pet peeve: When someone encodes a widescreen formatted video WITH the black letterbox borders in the video!

Sadly, that's actually part of the DVD specification! HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, even. It bugs me a lot that in DVD land, 2.35:1 movies are encoded as 16:9 with black bars attached. Why can't they just encode them as 2.35:1 videos and let the player generate the black bars? It's an utter waste of pixels if you ask me.

X-Warrior · Post by **X-Warrior** » 11 Dec 2006, 17:48

Pet peeve: When someone encodes a widescreen formatted video WITH the black letterbox borders in the video!

Sadly, that's actually part of the DVD specification! HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, even. It bugs me a lot that in DVD land, 2.35:1 movies are encoded as 16:9 with black bars attached. Why can't they just encode them as 2.35:1 videos and let the player generate the black bars? It's an utter waste of pixels if you ask me.

Not really.

The 'black' bars are actually a bit greyish. The result is that black parts of the movie appear darker. This trick improves the perceived contrast, particularly useful on LCD's ;)

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