resolution constraints

[gomezdegomera]

I encoded The Professionist using this Avisinth script in VirtualDUb with divx 4.12 (2 passes) (the movie is in 720x576 PAL format)

LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
mpeg2source("H:\vob\test.d2v")
Crop(10,72,700,432)
BicubicResize(700,298)

Microdvd 1.2 can't show the movie in fullscreen mode (it shows black screen with a little noise on the left). All the other players show that correctly (Zoom, WMP). I think it is a bug derived by the resolution (700 x 298). Infact I encoded with the following script and the prob disappeared:


LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
mpeg2source("H:\vob\test.d2v")
AddBorders(0,0,8,0)
Crop(16,72,696,432)
BicubicResize(696,296)


So the question is: which are the resolutions that microdvd does not accept in full screen mode?

[iluminati]

I think that depends on your gfx-card. For full screen overlay some cards need the width (and height) of the video to be a multiple of 8 16 or even 32 (Matrox, I believe). If I recall correctly doom9 recommends using a multiple of at least 16 for the width and 8 or also 16 for the height.
So using 700 (4) x 298 (2) is not a good idea.

[gomezdegomera]

I'll follow your tip. However I noticed that in 800x600 screen mode the problem disappeared (I used 1024 x 768 before).