Problem with a DivX DVD player.

[jabolino]

Ok so I just bought a new DVD player that can also play DivX, Magnavox MWD7006. It was on sale for $40 so I thought I might as well pick it up. It works great in terms or recognizing media, it can play all AVI files I threw at it so far. I have one problem though, some of the AVI files are kind of zoomed out, they have bigger letterboxes than they should have, they have a letterbox on all 4 sides. So the problem is, when I click zoom, it zooms in, but too much so that half the movie is outsize of the zoom, but when I zoom back out it goes back to having a letterbox on every side.

Any ideas on how to fix this? It happens only on select AVIs, my guess is they haven't been encoded right.

[Baldrick]

maybe try change the avi aspect ratio with mpeg4 modifier.

and this is not any dvd authoring. moving you.

[jabolino]

Didn't work, I noticed that it only happens to files that are encoded with DivX, Xvid works just fine. So any other suggestions except for having the re-encode files into Xvid?

[jabolino]

I have a question about that aspect ratio changer, which option do I change so that the aspect ratio changes, cause no matter what I do, the video still stays 580/460 (example).

[Krispy Kritter]

I believe resoution stays the same, you are only telling the player how to display the video.

For instance, if you have 4:3 source with an aspect ratio of 4:3, it will fill the screen on a standard TV. If you change the AR to 16:9, you will get black bars top/bottom on a standard TV.