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<blockquote data-quote="MageMinds" data-source="post: 669633" data-attributes="member: 30288">Anamorphic means that the picture is encoded using a different pixel height/width ration than the viewing ratio.A DVD for example is encodec using the resolution 720x480, but this equals a ratio of 1.5 a 16/9 movie ratio is 1.77, so the raw image from the DVD is not formed correctly, the player have to adjust the display ratio to correctly show the picture. This is a way of encoding image to enhance the quality while respecting the format required by a certain media, in this case the DVD format that allow a maximum of 720x480. In 720p file we see that very little, you must have stumble on an odd file... Maybe it's an upscale from a DVD, so they kept the anamorphic.Anyway maybe the anamorphic is too hard for your CPU to handle...Trust me when I say your computer isn't fast enough to decode HD content ... you might get lucky with low bitrate 720p files, but some files have higher bitrate and you CPU won't be able to cope.It's not the resolution the problem, it's the bitrate... You could find a file at 1080p with very low bitrate and your CPU would be able to get it and you could get a 480p file with really high bitrate that your CPU won't be able to decode. Everything is about the bitrate, not the size... I hear some say that the size will influence the bitrate, that's true, but the CPU doesn't care about how much pixel it have to generate, it care about how much information it have to compute each second... With your setup you could maybe decode 4 mbits files, then you get a file at 5 mbits and it freeze... Look at the bitrate of movies that works and the bitrate of the movies that doesn't. Anamorphic, just add something the CPU have to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MageMinds, post: 669633, member: 30288"] Anamorphic means that the picture is encoded using a different pixel height/width ration than the viewing ratio. A DVD for example is encodec using the resolution 720x480, but this equals a ratio of 1.5 a 16/9 movie ratio is 1.77, so the raw image from the DVD is not formed correctly, the player have to adjust the display ratio to correctly show the picture. This is a way of encoding image to enhance the quality while respecting the format required by a certain media, in this case the DVD format that allow a maximum of 720x480. In 720p file we see that very little, you must have stumble on an odd file... Maybe it's an upscale from a DVD, so they kept the anamorphic. Anyway maybe the anamorphic is too hard for your CPU to handle... Trust me when I say your computer isn't fast enough to decode HD content ... you might get lucky with low bitrate 720p files, but some files have higher bitrate and you CPU won't be able to cope. It's not the resolution the problem, it's the bitrate... You could find a file at 1080p with very low bitrate and your CPU would be able to get it and you could get a 480p file with really high bitrate that your CPU won't be able to decode. Everything is about the bitrate, not the size... I hear some say that the size will influence the bitrate, that's true, but the CPU doesn't care about how much pixel it have to generate, it care about how much information it have to compute each second... With your setup you could maybe decode 4 mbits files, then you get a file at 5 mbits and it freeze... Look at the bitrate of movies that works and the bitrate of the movies that doesn't. Anamorphic, just add something the CPU have to do. [/QUOTE]

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