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Changing aspect ratio

PostPosted: February 16th, 2011, 1:48 pm
by rubber
Hi guys

Can anyone tell me if its possible to change the aspect ratio on video playback as a lot of the vids i am trying to watch from my usb stick have either black lines down either side or top and bottom.
I realise this will stretch the picture and so distort the viewing a little but i can live with that.

If not could you suggest a different player that might do this and tell me where i can download it from?

many thanks for any help

Re: Changing aspect ratio

PostPosted: February 16th, 2011, 3:19 pm
by Fonefixer
Welcome Rubber!

Not sure if this will help but another user has mentioned a player at https://market.android.com/details?id=a ... ideoPlayer

Worth a try, If you dont have market access someone might have the apk (setup) file lurking (I dont im afraid)

Re: Changing aspect ratio

PostPosted: February 16th, 2011, 6:31 pm
by JimmyW
The screen is actually 5:3 aspect ratio (not 16:9 as claimed on SO website) so you would need to re-encode your films to match (Meaning widescreen films will still have letterboxing)

You can check aspect ratios based on pixel sizes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vector_Video_Standards2.svg