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  1. The manual came from the reddit forum. I posted a query there asking if anyone had downloaded the manual from the VRD website before it went offline. I eventually got a useful reply which included the google docs link. The manual is dated 2018, so it could be for v5.

    The image in the post I made to this forum is a thumbnail for an attachment in my (now previous) post, so the manual is now part of this discussion forum ... but ideally it would be placed on the VRD main page as well.

    At this stage the videohelp link for the manual is:
    https://forum.videohelp.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=85413&d=1739226470
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    Originally Posted by Marayong View Post
    At this stage the videohelp link for the manual is:

    https://forum.videohelp.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=85413&d=1739226470
    This is the link that i already added to the 1st post of this Thread, so i assume this is now hosted here in the Video Help forum.

    As far as i am concerned, the Pro Activation matter is pretty much dead and buried, but i still think that the Wife or Family of the late Dan Rosen should, or could have gone public after he passed away just to let his customers know exactly what happened, and what was possibly going to happen with VRD going into the future, and i guarantee a lot of others out there would be thinking the very same thing too.

    If a builder goes bust, or a car dealership goes bust, or a retailer goes bust, the matter does not just vanish and go away, there are certain obligations that are required to be met when a business folds up, and VRD was a commercial business, so they should have been obliged to inform it's paying customers what was going on.

    I never got an email, i saw no public notices, no nothing, so why would his customers not be a bit peeved off by now.

    If this is Berating someone, then so be it, i am just posting the facts as i see it as a user of VRD.

    Originally Posted by Alwyn View Post
    No, that is not what the situation was at all. I just wanted the "alternatives" thread to talk about alternatives, not descend into a multipage waffle about everything but. And I did say please.

    If you haven't worked it out already, the ONLY reason I came into this thread is because I considered your tearing of strips off a dead-programmers wife was a pretty disgraceful act.
    You don't have to read all the so called "Waffle" just close the thread and leave, and if you think that i was berating the Wife of the late Dan Rosen, then you have not been reading some of the other stuff posted about her or his family over in the stupid Reddit forum, maybe you should visit that place and crack your whip there as well
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    Originally Posted by Marayong
    I've got some non 16x9 videos, mostly ripped off old 4:3 DVDs, as well as some very old cinema sized moves (1.85-2.4:1 ratio) which the TV insists on stretching/squashing to fit when played off a HDD plugged into the tv.
    It could be the metadata is not being read by the TV.

    Try setting the aspect ratio: on the VRD Profile Options screen, set Output codec to the files video codec (MPEG 2 for DVD movies), and set the Aspect Ratio to 4:3.

    If that doesn't work ie TV still stretches video out to the edges try:

    Set output codec as before, set the Output Mode to Force Recode, set the Resolution to 768x576 (for a PAL file) and aspect ratio to 4:3. If the TV doesn't respect the 4:3 coding, then it should respect the actual frame size of 768 wide and not stretch it. If it doesn't, you need a new TV!

    It could also be the codec not being read properly; try H264 768x576 4:3 and AAC.

    I made myself a 544x576 file, coded it as 1:1 (it displays correctly at 4:3). Then I imported that into VRD, did the above; the Intelligent Recode method didn't work but the force recode method did and my weird file displayed correctly at 4:3 ie with pillarboxed side bars (on my 16:9 TV).
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  4. I'm pretty sure it is a design flaw in the tv. There's a setting on the remote to change the aspect ratio ... settings include automatic, cinema, 16x9, 4x3 etc. Those settings are available on all inputs *except* USB. It displays all USB input as 16x9. When viewing videos via usb, trying to change the resolution gives you an "option not available" popup. Solutions are to pillarbox (or the reverse) all the relevant videos, play them on a pc hdmi'd to the tv or, as you say, get a new tv. I presume more modern tvs will allow you to change the aspect ratio on usb inputs, as well as antenna, hdmi & composite ... not that I've used composite in ages. Most of my digitised videos are 16x9, so it's only the occasional one that gets distorted and it's easy enuf to play that off a computer onto the tv, either directly from my desktop or via my local network to any other device that can connect to the tv.
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    Go buy a brand new 4k Smart TV, go on, you know you really want one

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