Philips PET725/78 - Distortion when .avi is "wider" than wide scr

[xXxAlvoxXx]

Hi All!!!

First of all, sorry for english errors that you probably will find here. English ios not my native language.

I'v just bought a new portable dvd player Philips PET725/78, to replace my older problematic Hyundai HY-9907N/P.

The PET725/78 is cute player, but I'm havin some problem.

When I play an .avi that has dimensions that are different from the size of the screen, it seems to stretch the picture vertically making faces look tall and thin. Selecting the more square "TV" monitor setting just (4:3) worsens the vertical distortion as would be expected, but with back bars around all image, making it a very small picture on screen center. On my older and broke Hyundai HY-9907N/P it "letterboxed" screen putting black bars above and below it, in order to fit a wider image in a wide screen, preserving the aspect ratio.

I have exactly the same problem with my Samsung DVD-P366.

Any solution to this?

Thanks in advance,

Alvo

[jagabo]

This is the fault of your player. But you might (not likely though) be able to work around it by setting the MPEG4 Display Aspect Ratio flag with MPEG4Modifier.

The only other way to fix the problem would be to add borders to the video to make it 16:9 then reencode.

[xXxAlvoxXx]

Humm...

Thanks. This software will be very useful. It look to be fast, because dont need to reencode video file.

But... That is something that i forgot to mention.

The old Hyundai Hyundai HY-9907N/P (it's screen is dead, with 2 months use, and I can't find some eletronic service that can fix it) play those wider files without problems, putting the black bars instead stretch image.

I think PET725/78 and Hyundai HY-9907N/P use the same Mediatek firmware, because booth have the same file select interface.

About the screen type, Hyundai have the options Widescreen, 4:3 and 4:3 PS. PET425/78 have 16:9, 4:3 LB and 4:3 PS. I think the major diference between widescreen and 16:9 is: widescreen fits avi file the screen width, maintaining aspect ratio, and 16:9 simply stretch all until the screen's border.

Do someone knows some kind of firmware update or firmware edit to fix it?