solidus667
6th June 2007, 23:09
When I use windows media player, media player classic, or vlc, and play a video on my CRT-based HDTV, which is at 1776x1000i, the aspect ratio is messed up (people look too narrow) and the bottom of the video is cropped off.
I can fix this by disabling overlay in the player. I did some searches here and it seems like overlay can delegate some of the rendering(/decoding?) work to the GPU and allow it to do some color correction or something.
If I play the video on my HDTV at a progressive scan resolution such as 848x480, it looks fine with overlay or otherwise.
Is there a way I can get things working properly with overlay enabled? Should I even care whether I'm using this overlay thing?
I searched and searched and couldnt find anything on this before posting.
Thanks for helping a noob. :)
If it matters, the video card is an AGP GeForce 6800.
I can fix this by disabling overlay in the player. I did some searches here and it seems like overlay can delegate some of the rendering(/decoding?) work to the GPU and allow it to do some color correction or something.
If I play the video on my HDTV at a progressive scan resolution such as 848x480, it looks fine with overlay or otherwise.
Is there a way I can get things working properly with overlay enabled? Should I even care whether I'm using this overlay thing?
I searched and searched and couldnt find anything on this before posting.
Thanks for helping a noob. :)
If it matters, the video card is an AGP GeForce 6800.