Disable full screen for TV when playing AVI

[slav]

Good time of the day, everybody.
I've got a number of AVI files, all converted from FLV format and all downloaded from YouTube.
I play them on DIVX-compatible Philips player. Each file plays on TV in full screen mode, thus
making pixelizations and imperfections clearly visible. Is there any way to convert them or force
into such a way, that TV set will display them in a smaller window?
Thank you.

[gll99]

If you have the Philips DVP-5990/92 it will zoom down by 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4. It works with (divx) avi files on disc and on a usb disk/thumb.

[redwudz]

gll99's method is probably the easiest. Otherwise, when you encode them, add a black border around the video when you convert to DivX/Xvid. You can then make the window whatever size you want. VirtualDub, for one, can easily do this. You could re-encode your existing Xvids, but you would lose a lot of quality encoding a second time.

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