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gaelsano · 8th January 2012, 15:05

Thank you much for the feedback. I don't have many encoded movies. Some films I'd like to get, but I can only get access to them if I buy them (as opposed to rent/streaming/etc) and if I have to buy the discs, I would like to be able to use them. I know the players probably handle digital (non-disc) files separately anyway.

I'm aware of MPC-HC's zoom feature. Doesn't fix the aspect ratio, it usually just ends up cropping from the top. Alright, but still applies forced stretching.

I've jerry-rigged VLC to crop the 16 side pixels and force the result to be stretched to 854x480 (simply adding crop will get you 720x480->854x480->836x480), but it causes glitches and it spontaneously goes back to its original settings.

In any case, I'm interested in a hardware player that does ITU Rec.601 on HDMI so I can use a computer monitor (sans the overscan) because that's cheaper.

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gaelsano Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Korea Posts: 7	Thank you much for the feedback. I don't have many encoded movies. Some films I'd like to get, but I can only get access to them if I buy them (as opposed to rent/streaming/etc) and if I have to buy the discs, I would like to be able to use them. I know the players probably handle digital (non-disc) files separately anyway. I'm aware of MPC-HC's zoom feature. Doesn't fix the aspect ratio, it usually just ends up cropping from the top. Alright, but still applies forced stretching. I've jerry-rigged VLC to crop the 16 side pixels and force the result to be stretched to 854x480 (simply adding crop will get you 720x480->854x480->836x480), but it causes glitches and it spontaneously goes back to its original settings. In any case, I'm interested in a hardware player that does ITU Rec.601 on HDMI so I can use a computer monitor (sans the overscan) because that's cheaper.