I've set up my HTPC and am pretty happy with it. It's 64bit Win 7, using Media Center and mediabrowser as the front end.
I am starting to rip my dvd collection to the drive. I am using Handbrake to convert to xvid avi's (so they will play on my old xbox running xbmc).
I got to Lord of the rings last night. It's 2.35:1 I think (or maybe 2.39:1??) "super" widescreen. The problem is that Media Center plays it zoomed in - there are no black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. I think the width is ok, as everything looks vertically stretched. Using the various zoom options in Media Center makes no difference (actually, it increases the zoom, making it worse!)
Any ideas?? One option is to disable cropping in handbrake, but that seems a very clumsy solution.
Thanks for any help
(on the HTPC box I am using Shark 007 codec pack and 1920×1080 display. On my desktop I think it's CCC codec pack and 1680x1050. both do exactly the same thing. It's also the same whether I go through mediabrowser or just ask media center to play direct)
I am starting to rip my dvd collection to the drive. I am using Handbrake to convert to xvid avi's (so they will play on my old xbox running xbmc).
I got to Lord of the rings last night. It's 2.35:1 I think (or maybe 2.39:1??) "super" widescreen. The problem is that Media Center plays it zoomed in - there are no black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. I think the width is ok, as everything looks vertically stretched. Using the various zoom options in Media Center makes no difference (actually, it increases the zoom, making it worse!)
Any ideas?? One option is to disable cropping in handbrake, but that seems a very clumsy solution.
Thanks for any help
(on the HTPC box I am using Shark 007 codec pack and 1920×1080 display. On my desktop I think it's CCC codec pack and 1680x1050. both do exactly the same thing. It's also the same whether I go through mediabrowser or just ask media center to play direct)