I am using Gordianknot to make 720 x 576 anamorphic encodes of dvds. They look fantastic!!.... But you have to manually resize your media player or use the zoom function in MCE. How the hell to I set a flag in the files to tell players they are widescreen? I have tried Mpeg4modifier... doesn't do squat! .. and Yes, I ticked the allow format changes box in FFDSHOW. I tried using OGM and MKV containers .... nothing I read mention of using an MP4 container, but I can't really find some decent info on it ....... Has anyone successfully flaged their anamorphic encodes as widescreen so media player knows automatically how to display them?
Works fine here. Either set in XviD when encoding or afterwards with MPEG4Modifier. Try: http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/test/testar.avi See if it resizes properly.
Ok .. here's what I have found. .. and BTW, I am wanting to play all these clips under Media Centre Edition 2005.... I tried that testar.avi clip .... It is 352 x 576 but flagged as 16:9 yes? I have three machines to play it on ... a Laptop, a desktop and the MCE2005 machine. MCE2005 plays it as it is ... tall & skinny Media player classic on the desktop ... tall & skinny Media player 9 plays on the laptop .... widescreen ... WTF? .. so I tried Media Player Classic on the laptop ... tall & skinny WTF? I loaded GSPOT on to the laptop.... the only machine I don't have ffdshow installed on by the way... and it reports the codec used as XviD Mpeg-4 Video Decoder...... so I thought, OK, let's put on ffdshow and see if it makes it tall & skinny in MP9 .. IT DID! SO, ffdshow, which was the only way I could get XVIDs to play on my MCE2005 machine does not seem to honour the aspect flagging in an XVID..... NOR does Media Player Classic! So, does anyone know what codec will work on MCE2005 AND honour the aspect flagging... and Does anyone know why Media Player Classic does NOT honour the aspect flagging with XVIDs, yet it does with MPEG2, VOBS, DVD etc?
It isn't upto MPC. The file resizes correctly in MPC here using XviD or ffdshow to decode. Recent DivX decoders I believe also support PAR resizing. Try setting the output to VMR9 renderless.
