Media Player Classic aspect ratios

[madmartian]

How do you force Media Player Classic to play the correct aspect ratio - from a batch file? Is that possible? I need to run a shorts block at a film festival and it doesn't always play the correct aspect ratio.

[celtic_druid]

mplayerc.exe /?
Doesn't look like you can force an AR via command line. If the source file has the AR set correctly and the playback filters respect it then MPC should resize fine. What exactly is your source? Only other option would I guess be to use a different player.

[madmartian]

Is there a way to change the AR in a DV (AVI) source file? Media Player Classic does appear to display 16:9 MPG files correctly. I think the AVI file is not displaying correctly because technically it is 4:3 shot in "squeeze mode".

[tin2tin]

MPC doesn't change the AR though it's a 16:9 file, it plays 4:3 no matter what. Use VLC or some other player.

[celtic_druid]

MPC will resize if the decoder, etc. can handle it. For instance XviD or ffdshow for MPEG-4 decoding.

I just had a go and the only player I could get to respect the AR of a DV avi was mplayer and that is the ODML vprp AR. Not even sure if real 16:9 DV avi's contain such a flag. You could add it and mplayer would respect it, but I don't think anything else does.

MPC doesn't playback at 4:3 for me either. Plays back at 5:4 since it assumes a PAR of 1:1 so 720/576. Using ffdshow as the decoder. It does remember the AR overide though. So if I set it to 16:9, close and then play it is still 16:9. Could also have ffdshow resize all DV files to make them 16:9 using image preset autoloading.