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  1. As I've stated previously, I was in search of an apex player that would play all these old DC mpeg-1 discs. A lot of the files are 320x240 or other resolutions departing from the typica 352x240 or 352x288 vcd resolutions. These files are all playing up in a courner or stretched across the top of the screen, not properly, stretched to fullscreen. Does anybody know of a workaround or hack for this, or if not, if any of the apex players, DO do this. Unfortunatly I'm guessing they all probably playback the same way --- but I'd be delighted to hear otherwise. thanks.
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  2. This is important here. I mean I got the old 1mb model that still plays vcd's. I think it may have been an unopened return, the shipping sticker says 7/12. Hard to believe it could have been sitting around that long. Anyway, if I return this, well unless the retail price goes down even lower for the new ones, I'd hav to end up paying more off ebay to get another. There was only 1 other left in the store, and I had to go to 3 to find this one. I need to know if any of the apex players at all will force full screen scaling. If one of them does, well then returing this one would make sense. If not, I dunno. I probably will choose to return it anyway and wait for the xbox media player software to develop.
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  3. bleh sorry, I'm sounding desperate here, saying 'this is important'. Yall will reply when yer dern well ready.
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  4. turbodood,

    I've noticed you have been asking a few questions about
    various apex players. As I've never tried anything less than
    352xYYY I can only suggest you try the forums at:

    http://www.nerd-out.com/apex/

    Seriously, I doubt that you will find any one to
    help you on this - no one I know does mpeg at
    what you could call -xVCD resolution. At that
    level you may as well use divix.
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  5. Basically my reasoning was using the dreamcast to playback the files, it would playback any res. Therefore 320x240 keeps aspect ratio a lot better than 352x240 does. If your source file is widescreen 640x480, and you center it on 352x240, when viewed fullscreen it is distorted. Or so I thought anyway, thats what it seemed. Whether or not that can be fixed is pointless now, I have hundreds of 320x240 mpeg-1 discs. In any event, I'll still appreciate the help, but thanks for suggesting that other board.
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