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    Need Video playing software

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by sean473, Dec 2, 2009.

  1. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    Hi, I have a DVD which is 720p.. problem is when i play it on my laptop with Divx player , the video cannot be upscaled to 1080p... is there any program (video player like VLC Media player ) which can do this when i play the video so i don't see 2 big black spaces in between the video and the screen...
     
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    That's a weird problem man.. So if you use VLC to play it, and then do full screen mode in VLC you still get the black bars? It may not be the right ratio.. 720p doesn't mean it's 16:9..
     
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    If you use VLC, go under Video-> Aspect Ratio.

    Choose 16:10 there and it upscales the ratio to fill the bars.
     
    surfasb, Dec 2, 2009
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    not working did that... video looks like this... i'm putting in a screenshot... is there some other video player? will cyberlink power dvd work?
     

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    You won't get rid of those bars unless you stretch the video. That looks like 2.35 video in a 1.85 frame. You might try crop in VLC and aspect ratio combined, but you'll get tall skinny people.
     
    olyteddy, Dec 3, 2009
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    is there a program which can automatically do this for me? I don't know what settings to use...
     
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    Yeah, instead of aspect ratio, you need to go under the Crop menu.
     
    surfasb, Dec 3, 2009
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    did that too.. no hope... i tried media player clasic and was able to upscale it...into a full hd tv... so no probs...thanks for the help guys.
     
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    Enjoy your stretched video.
     
    olyteddy, Dec 4, 2009
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