Resizing squished avi's?

[VuzMan]

I've downloaded a movie (The Big Lebowski) that has been encoded wrong somehow, so it now appears "squished". That is, it's a 4:3 movie that has been encoded as Widescreen, making all the people seem realy fat.

I know I could re-encode it, but besides being a hassle, I'd lose quality. Is there a player that can stretch (resize) the movie so it appears as it should be?

[FactorM]

take a look at bsplayer.

[VuzMan]

Yeah thanks, BSPlayer will change the aspect ratio. But it can't play the movie properly. Very choppy, drops most frames, and the picture's awful. Am I doing something wrong? I've tried tinkering with different rendering modes under prefs->video but to no avail.

Is it me?