DV footage auto aspect correction in MPC.

[Gew]

Hi!

For as long as I can remember, Media Player Classic has automatically corrected AR for my DV footage. For example, I play a PAL 720x576 footage clip that has an AR of 16:9 and MPC will automatically stretch the window when it catches the "magic bullet" in the header.

However, I just reinstalled Windoze and now it doesn't. I can't remember ever having to install any particular splitter for MPC to behave this way. What has happened? Any ideas what I can be missing out on?

Ty in adv~
Regards~

[Gew]

Okey, guys, you will probably not believe me, 'cuz this is insane. Hear me out though. When I launch WinDV.exe, and subsequently mplayerc.exe, then the 16:9 DAR flag is respected thus black padding appears on my 4:3 computer monitor (after clicking once in the MPC window, alternatively fullscreening it). However, if I kill the WinDV.exe process, and then launch the same DV-AVI clip in MPC, it doesn't honor the DAR flag, but show in native 5:4 (720x576) resolution. This is _madness_, and a true mystery. In short, I need to have the WinDV.exe process running in the background for MPC to treat files right automatically upon playback. This has never been an issue before. Does anyone here have a reasonable explanation for this behavior? Needless to say I doubt it!

[Gew]

Found the solution. "Overlay" renderer in MPC won't honor AR flags.
I chose "System default" (windowed VMR7) instead, and it did the trick.

Case closed!