my avi files appear too small on tv...

[vinayak1986]

i have philips dvp3166.. an avi file played as a very small image on my tv.. thinking that it had to do something with the image size setting, i changed it to 672*288, the setting of another video
which had played ok on my tv.. it didnt work too.can any1 help me?

[guns1inger]

What do you mean by 'too small' ? If you are getting bars all the way around then you have not set up your TV or player (or both) correctly.

[vinayak1986]

well too small means that not all the tv screen area is utilised for displaying the image..
it is surrounded on the 4 sides by black area.. the picture is in the middle..'the image doesnt fit the screen' might be a good description

[manono]

672x288 isn't going to fill it in any event, even a widescreen TV set. It should play with black above and below.

I'll assume you have a widescreen TV set. Make sure your player is set up to output for widescreen TV sets (aka 16:9).

[vinayak1986]

no,its a normal tv.. i will try that.. anything which i should differently in the encoding section???
its an avi file,converted from mkv

[vinayak1986]

thanx man..it worked..the setting in my player was 'widescreen'..
changed it to 4:3 mode... it worked...grttt thanx for helping me out on that stupid
question

[guns1inger]

There is no complete standard for Divx/Xvid playback by standalone players. I am running two currently, and both handle the same files differently. The Pioneer correctly switches between widescreen and fullscreen files without a problem, and sends appropriate flags through to the TV (a 4:3 with widescreen switching). The LG, on the other hand, sends everything through as 16:9 if it is set to 16:9, even if the source is obviously not. In which case I get the same problem as you have. I find that for 4:3 material I have to manually change the setting on the LG or I get window boxing. Obviously the Philips has the same poor quality handling as the LG models.

[vinayak1986]

cant exactly say its poor quality handling... there is a video setup option,and i have changed the option there...so now it automatically displays any file according to its resolution.. i dont hav to do it manually everytime..LG 2 might hav such an option