DVD Aspect Ratio

I have searched through the threads to try and resolve my problem with no
success.

Is there any way to change the way MP10 displays a ripped DVD. After ripping
a DVD, it plays back on 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the 16:9 it should
display in which obviously causes a distorted picture.

The same DVD displays perfectly in PowerDVD on the same PC.

I have tried changing the settings in MP (View/Video size) with no effect. I
had a look at the control panel Display settings, but couldn't find anything
that should be changed. I am using a pretty standard Intel 82865G graphics
controller with no additional display adapters. The Intel Extreme graphics 2
is set to coloour quality: 32 Bit, screen resolution: 1152 x 864, refresh
rate 72 HZ (not that I believe that has anything to do with it.

Any suggestions?

I seem to have the same issue with WMP.

When you tick the use microsofts video mixing render or both use video
mixing render and the the option below it use use overlays in WMP it
displays correctly as is should (black borders on the top) but its only when
you use microsoft video mixing render but for me i don't get any hardware
accelation on it dispite it being ticked cause the CPU usage is simular to
that of having no hardware accellation.

But when i take the ticks out of using microsoft video mixing render it
displays in a 4:3 aspect ratio only displaying the black border on all 4
sides and i get the CPU level of that with hardware accellation, i can only
assume its a bug in media player and its been there through WMP 9, 10 and 11
beta (the players i tried). Cause other players like powerdvd and windvd
display it perfectly.

The monitor i have is a 16:10 widescreen at 1440x900.
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"Netorius77" <Netorius77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB6DB40E-D2A9-4790-8B80-D9CD9FF76250@microsoft.com...
>I have searched through the threads to try and resolve my problem with no
> success.
>
> Is there any way to change the way MP10 displays a ripped DVD. After
> ripping
> a DVD, it plays back on 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the 16:9 it should
> display in which obviously causes a distorted picture.
>
> The same DVD displays perfectly in PowerDVD on the same PC.
>
> I have tried changing the settings in MP (View/Video size) with no effect.
> I
> had a look at the control panel Display settings, but couldn't find
> anything
> that should be changed. I am using a pretty standard Intel 82865G graphics
> controller with no additional display adapters. The Intel Extreme graphics
> 2
> is set to coloour quality: 32 Bit, screen resolution: 1152 x 864, refresh
> rate 72 HZ (not that I believe that has anything to do with it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

It's your video card settings. Usually if you're using a custom screen
resolution as you detail below, ticking/unticking the video mixing renderer
in WMP's Tools:Options:Performance will fix this. If that's *not* fixing it
up, you likely would either want to contact actual Microsoft or Intel
support - one of them isn't handling this properly.

-Zach
--
Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Netorius77" <Netorius77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB6DB40E-D2A9-4790-8B80-D9CD9FF76250@microsoft.com...
>I have searched through the threads to try and resolve my problem with no
> success.
>
> Is there any way to change the way MP10 displays a ripped DVD. After
> ripping
> a DVD, it plays back on 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the 16:9 it should
> display in which obviously causes a distorted picture.
>
> The same DVD displays perfectly in PowerDVD on the same PC.
>
> I have tried changing the settings in MP (View/Video size) with no effect.
> I
> had a look at the control panel Display settings, but couldn't find
> anything
> that should be changed. I am using a pretty standard Intel 82865G graphics
> controller with no additional display adapters. The Intel Extreme graphics
> 2
> is set to coloour quality: 32 Bit, screen resolution: 1152 x 864, refresh
> rate 72 HZ (not that I believe that has anything to do with it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>