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Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

Hi,

I use Zoom Player as the media player on my HTPC. After switching to a 2.40:1 screen at 1920*800p I've noticed that some DVD's don't play right.

An example is the Cars (Pixar) DVD. When it plays the movie is 2.39:1 but it is playing in a 1.78:1 screen area. Is there a way in Zoom Player to zoom the picture so it fills the screen evenly, or is it possible to set up a profile in the aspect ratio menu so I can zoom it. I can stretch the width using the fit to windows AR but this gives me a picture about 3:1 as it doesn't stretch vertically as the space is taken up with black bars.

Thanks,

Erik

perisoft · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 2920 Location: Ithaca, NY

Setting the aspect ratio to 'derived' usually gets things right for me. There're ways to manually zoom vertically and horizontally but that's kind of a kludge.

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

Hi Perisoft,

I've tried all of the aspect ratio controls, the problem is the DVD's are recorded in a 1.78:1 AR. My screen is 2.40:1 so the picture doesn't fit within the screen.

What I really need is a Crop setting like the one in VLC media player but with a 2.40:1 Crop setting.