widescreen windows media player

Jon

Jon

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hi some of my dvds and divx files dont play on the whole of my widescreen while other programs such as the acer arcade program that came with the laptop display it full screen.

how can i get winidows media player to actually use the whole of my widescreen when i go into the full scren mode?!

thanks
 
Hmm, I am not sure if that is a windows media player issue. I have a TV card that I use to watch TV on my computer and although I use full screen mode (granted this is not through win media player) the following sometimes happens: A certain show or movie is widescreen, but only uses up a portion of my 20" widescreen acer monitor. There will be about an inch and a half border on every side that is not used. Then, a comercial comes, and the whole screen is automatically used.

So, I don't know if certain file formats or resolutions affect that or if that really relates to your case, but for starters, I would try playing a certain file with win media player and then with for example divx player to see if it is only the winmp that does not use the full screen. As far as I know there is nothing you can change in win media player once it is in full screen mode but for some reason doesn't use the full screen.
 
when the video's playing, there should be a codec toolbar icon in the system tray.

right click that, and adjust it to stretch it to your screen

or if you have media center, all you need to do is hit 'info' and then click 'zoom' and there's 3 zoom settings, which are 1.) unzoomed 2.) stretch to inside 3.) stretch to outside
 
Keep in mind some videos are an even wider format that 16:9, and will STILL have small black bars on the top and bottom.
 
wmc allows you to stretch to 16:9, widescreen, ultra widescreen or fullscreen.

one of them will remove the black bar and show everything.
 
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