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8th October 2002, 19:06
Hi,
In my DVD player selection quest I came across a Pioneer 353/250, which is a pretty decent machine except for the fact that it squeezes SVCD playback vertically when the player's output is set to 4:3 and the TV is 4:3 as well.
This is easily remedied by telling the player that I've got a 16:9 TV, but it also makes me wondering whether there is a flag that can be set in the MPEG stream that would make this player scale the picture properly.
The SVCDs that I tried were the ones created via DVD2SVCD, and samples from vcdhelp.com. The same disks play fine in all other players but Pioneer. To rule out a single unit defect, I tried another display model in CircuitCity and got the same result.
Several other people also complained about this "feature" in vcdhelp.com's forums. Some suspected that Pioneer is looking for some flag, which is ignored by the rest of players on the market :)
Can somebody please confirm the existence of this flag or just tell me that there is an easy fix for it other than selecting 16:9 output every time when playing SVCDs?
Thanks!
In my DVD player selection quest I came across a Pioneer 353/250, which is a pretty decent machine except for the fact that it squeezes SVCD playback vertically when the player's output is set to 4:3 and the TV is 4:3 as well.
This is easily remedied by telling the player that I've got a 16:9 TV, but it also makes me wondering whether there is a flag that can be set in the MPEG stream that would make this player scale the picture properly.
The SVCDs that I tried were the ones created via DVD2SVCD, and samples from vcdhelp.com. The same disks play fine in all other players but Pioneer. To rule out a single unit defect, I tried another display model in CircuitCity and got the same result.
Several other people also complained about this "feature" in vcdhelp.com's forums. Some suspected that Pioneer is looking for some flag, which is ignored by the rest of players on the market :)
Can somebody please confirm the existence of this flag or just tell me that there is an easy fix for it other than selecting 16:9 output every time when playing SVCDs?
Thanks!