Ábudos
21st November 2008, 11:31
I de/remuxed some DVDs into MKVs, the resolution is the standard 720x480 and in mkvmerge I selected 16:9. It plays fine in VLC, but in WMP it takes up my full screen (I have a 16:10 widscreen monitor) and doing a screen shot and measuring it when set to 100% confims its being displayed at about 780x480 (which is almost exactly 1.6:1 or 16:10). Under properties WMP says that the video is 853x480 (which would be 16:9). This make absolutely no sense to me.
My best guess is that its playing it at 853x480 but not with square pixels which means that the width would actually display as 853 x ~0.9 (I think) wich give you about 780. Am I correct in thinking this is the case, and if so, how can I correct it so that it plays at the correct 16:9 in both VLC and WMP and of course without any encoding.
Thanks. :)
Edit: Also, it looks like WMP does not pay attention to the sizing info I set in mkvmerge, but VLC does. And the raw .m2v file I used to create the mkv plays at the correct 16:9.
Final Edit: Question Closed The problem was the particular MPEG2 codec being used by WMP. I use the K-Lite codec package, I opened ffdshow and under MPEG2 it was set to disabled, so I told it to use libmpeg2 and this codec seems to listen to the pixel aspect setting in the mkv file, whereas whatever other one was overriding it to 1:1.
My best guess is that its playing it at 853x480 but not with square pixels which means that the width would actually display as 853 x ~0.9 (I think) wich give you about 780. Am I correct in thinking this is the case, and if so, how can I correct it so that it plays at the correct 16:9 in both VLC and WMP and of course without any encoding.
Thanks. :)
Edit: Also, it looks like WMP does not pay attention to the sizing info I set in mkvmerge, but VLC does. And the raw .m2v file I used to create the mkv plays at the correct 16:9.
Final Edit: Question Closed The problem was the particular MPEG2 codec being used by WMP. I use the K-Lite codec package, I opened ffdshow and under MPEG2 it was set to disabled, so I told it to use libmpeg2 and this codec seems to listen to the pixel aspect setting in the mkv file, whereas whatever other one was overriding it to 1:1.