Best Player to change a VOB's Aspect Ratio on the fly?

[ukb007]

Zoom Player has it, but you'd need a paid version for that. You attempt this on a downloaded version inadvertently, and your computer will restart and give you a message that Windows has recovered from serious error. Boy.

Regards.

[filewalker]

I use ZoomplayerPro and switching Aspect ratios (with key "R", via "context menue" and via my remote control) works like a charme.

But I don't know if other players support it.

Cu

[Doom9]

uh, do you mean stretch the VOB to a certain aspect ratio? Because you can't really change the aspect ratio of the video.. you can change the flag which makes the player resize things differently, but in my experience the flag in the IFO matters and overrides the AR flag in a VOB.

Media Player Classic has built-in aspect ratio presets that can easily be accessed. For instance, I have a 16:10 screen and if I play 4:3 letterboxed content, it's only being screteched to 1600x1200 rather than fill the full 1920x1200. But I can create a preset that would stretch the movie to the full width. Is that about what you're looking for?

[ukb007]

I have recently received a DVD of a concert in which the menu page points at different participants' performances. When I play it in PowerDVD with 'Keep Aspect Ratio' checked, the menu page appears sqashed from the sides (as 4:3) with the faces tall; when the real VOBs are called in by the menu items they are also squashed, all of them. I have to manually stretch them after unchecking 'Keep Aspect Ratio'.

Now when I play the VOBs separately and directly in PowerDVD with 'Keep Aspect Ratio' checked, the VOBS, all of them, play beautifully in their right AR (widescreen).

Obviously the authoring was in error. It seems that the VOBs themselves have the DAR tag correct (16:9), but the menu page has it wrong (4:3) which is carried over (?) to the VOBs when accessed from the menu. At least that's what looks like the explanation to me. All I want is to be able to play the concert in correct AR from the menu.

BS player has the presets 16:9 and 4:3 and can play VOBs, but I couldn't make it autoplay from the menu; this problem is in me and not in the player, I'm sure. I'll see if I can solve this in MPC and report.

Thanks again, and regards.