Video Not In Whole Screen

SAAER45

SAAER45

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I'm trying to watch a video file on my computer (AVI file in Windows Media Player) and I've noticed the videos (several of them) don't occupy the entire screen and only play in a band across the middle leaving the bottom and top in just blackness. Any Ideas on what's going on and how I can fix it?

Thanks,
John
 
It's probaly the fact that you're watching the Widescreen version of the movie, in which case...get the full screen:)
 
4:3 is the normal ratio of normal screens, universal throughout TV's, cRT's and TFT's, 16:9 is widescreen. Seen on newer CRT's and TFT's and most TV's nowadays.

You want your movie to be in 4:3, NOT 16:9

dragon
 
SAAER45 said:
Is it possible to change my 16:9 to 4:3?
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There must be a way to do that (reencoding?), but from my experience watching widescreen movies on a 4:3 screen without the black bars, the picture gets compressed vertically, making the faces and stuff look thinner and longer. Not a pretty sight. The black bars are there for a reason.
 
You either have the choice of stretching the video vertically to fill the screen, or just expanding the video so that the proper vertical size is used, there is no distortion, but the sides of the video are cut off from view.

There is nothing (to my knowledge) in between.
 
Not really a way to do it... most of them resize to have the bars at the top and bottom.. you either have to, like previously stated..

Get a regular 4:3 screened movie. You can't really change it unless you have those thousand dollar video editing software and studio.. haha probably a little exageration.. but you get the idea
 
Well, the file was orignally AVI, but I converted it to Divx (Mpeg4) so I could use that, but for some reason Windows media player didn't recognize the file, any idea why?

Edit: Even Weirder, when I try to play the converted into divx 2 1/2 hour video, instead a 5 minute audio clip plays while this message is beeing displayed:

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The file is either corrupt or the Player does not support the format you are trying to play.
 
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