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Posted by dgates on 05/05/07 16:42
On 5 May 2007 07:36:01 -0700, don <doncherry3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I recently bought a widescreen monitor (16:9 aspect ratio) and was
>dismayed to find out that most DIVX movie files are in 2.35:1, and
>thus leave a solid bar on the top and bottom of my screen when I play
>them.
>
>Is there a media player that can fit these movies to my 16:9 screen
>that involves cropping the extreme left and right portions of the
>picture?
>
>(I do not like the solution that some media players offer, which is to
>vertically stretch the picture and making everybody look anorexic).
I doubt you'll get much support from alt.video.dvd. As a general
rule, we're guys who were THRILLED when laserdiscs first came out and
we could see those solid bars on our TV sets (meaning that we were now
seeing the whole movie)!
Plus, the DivX part of the question doesn't imply that you're doing
much to support the filmmakers who worked their asses off shooting the
movie.
That said, even if your goal is to have the picture fill your screen,
I can't imagine why you'd want it just arbitrarily cropped a little
bit each on the left and right sides. Wouldn't you prefer some
network's 16:9 pan&scan conversion where at least someone made some
effort to make sure that the film was cropped in as intelligent way as
possible?
Sometimes, with the pan&scan conversions, you actually get more
picture than the "poor suckers" who saw it in the theater. Why, back
in the 80s, I remember being surprised to see:
- boom mikes,
- black Xes made of electrical tape where they shouldn't be on Phoebe
Cates,
- the "endless bicycle chain" trick ruined in Peewee's Big Adventure,
and
- a little bonus Kelly LeBrock in The Woman in Red.
Also, you generally just get to see a little extra ceiling & floor at
the tops and bottoms of the frame. I'd take that over having the left
& right sides blindly chopped off by a piece of software.
Good luck to ya! Watch the final duel at the end of "The Good, The
Bad and The Ugly," and let us know how you like it. :-)
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