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<blockquote data-quote="HenriM" data-source="post: 4671" data-attributes="member: 10451"><p>Thanks for the quick reply. Of course I already calibrated my system with a ruler on the TV. However my 'feeling' is that I get to big black bars above and below a Movie sometimes. When I stretch the Movie then the aspect ratio in not correct anymore. I try to correct this then again with the settings of the TV. </p><p></p><p>Probaly I should experiment more with ffdshow to cut off parts of the movie at the left/right in order to have less black bars above/below the movie. However I am not certain if this works because I assume ffdshow is used as a post action on the overlay data.</p><p></p><p>In a previous life I used a Matrox G550 videocard on my TV with DivxG400 installed. A nice 'hidden' feature of the Matrox drivers is that it can switch on the fly between Clone and Overlay mode. Further you can switch between these modes with a hotkey. In the full overlay mode I then set in DivxG400 to use 16:9. Further I could define some settings for Overscan and cutting of horizonal / vertical pixels in order to fill the screen as much as possible. I always got a perfect filled screen with a correct aspect ratio without need to switch modes on the TV.</p><p></p><p>Please take a look at <a href="http://www.tac.ee/~prr/videoutils/divxg400.html" target="_blank">http://www.tac.ee/~prr/videoutils/divxg400.html</a> for this utility. It also works for NVidea / ATI based cards. Perhaps you could also add these kind of expert settings to Media Portal?</p><p></p><p>I am also wondering why you do have these other settings especially for 4:3, but not for 16:9. It seems not so hard to add the 16:9 option then as well (at least when I quickly inspected the source-code).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HenriM, post: 4671, member: 10451"] Thanks for the quick reply. Of course I already calibrated my system with a ruler on the TV. However my 'feeling' is that I get to big black bars above and below a Movie sometimes. When I stretch the Movie then the aspect ratio in not correct anymore. I try to correct this then again with the settings of the TV. Probaly I should experiment more with ffdshow to cut off parts of the movie at the left/right in order to have less black bars above/below the movie. However I am not certain if this works because I assume ffdshow is used as a post action on the overlay data. In a previous life I used a Matrox G550 videocard on my TV with DivxG400 installed. A nice 'hidden' feature of the Matrox drivers is that it can switch on the fly between Clone and Overlay mode. Further you can switch between these modes with a hotkey. In the full overlay mode I then set in DivxG400 to use 16:9. Further I could define some settings for Overscan and cutting of horizonal / vertical pixels in order to fill the screen as much as possible. I always got a perfect filled screen with a correct aspect ratio without need to switch modes on the TV. Please take a look at [url]http://www.tac.ee/~prr/videoutils/divxg400.html[/url] for this utility. It also works for NVidea / ATI based cards. Perhaps you could also add these kind of expert settings to Media Portal? I am also wondering why you do have these other settings especially for 4:3, but not for 16:9. It seems not so hard to add the 16:9 option then as well (at least when I quickly inspected the source-code). [/QUOTE]
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