Cannot watch 16:9 DVD movies on my 4:3 tv.

[Zack]

Hi,

I can't find any answer on this problem here. Here's the problem:

I have a standard 4:3 TV and I want to be able to play widescreen only DVD movies on it using STV. When I try to do that, I got the movie in fullscreen loosing the right part of it. I've tried many setting and decoder, but I'm unable to get this fixed. Is this a know problem? Is there any configuration I should have made? I'm not a DVD specialist, but when watching a 16:9 movie on a 4:3 TV using a standard standalone DVD player, the image is automatically adjusted and black bars are simply added to the top and bottom of the screen. How can I do that using STV?

I'm running STV release 6.0.18.118

Thanks,

Zack

[UFGrayMatter]

Originally Posted by Zack

Hi,

I can't find any answer on this problem here. Here's the problem:

I have a standard 4:3 TV and I want to be able to play widescreen only DVD movies on it using STV. When I try to do that, I got the movie in fullscreen loosing the right part of it. I've tried many setting and decoder, but I'm unable to get this fixed. Is this a know problem? Is there any configuration I should have made? I'm not a DVD specialist, but when watching a 16:9 movie on a 4:3 TV using a standard standalone DVD player, the image is automatically adjusted and black bars are simply added to the top and bottom of the screen. How can I do that using STV?

I'm running STV release 6.0.18.118

Thanks,

Zack

well the picture isn't automatically adjusted - it's "squished" . The black bars are built into the movie to keep the original aspect ratio of the film. As far as your problem...I don't know. Are you using ffdshow?

[Zack]

Thank you for your answer UFGrayMatter. I can see the black bars when I select the 16x9 ratio in STV, but, even in this mode, I can't see the right part of the image.

For 'ffdshow', I really don't know what is this. I'll do a search on the forum to find informations.

Thanks,

Zack

[Zack]

Finally, I solve the problem using my CyberLink decoder provided with my DVD drive.

Thanks!

Zack