Windows media player dvd help.

ati · 05-20-06, 10:01 PM

When i play it full screen, i see these bars that windows media player adds on the top and bottom and i can see another set of bars which looks like they where incoded with the dvd? You can tell which one is which because the windows media one is darker than the the dvd one. How do i remove the widnows media one or dvd one?

Here is a picture of it.
I dont know if you can see it.

Know Nuttin · 05-20-06, 10:50 PM

Use something else to view DVD's with. I find Media Player terrible for that. Try VLC.

Fr3@k3r · 05-20-06, 11:18 PM

VLC = Video lan Client just so you know

and can be found

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

ati · 05-21-06, 01:34 AM

yea i use vlc, just wanted to try wmp since i dont use it much haha. whats the best decoder in your guy's opinion? is there even a difference between the different kinds?

Fr3@k3r · 05-21-06, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ati

yea i use vlc, just wanted to try wmp since i dont use it much haha. whats the best decoder in your guy's opinion? is there even a difference between the different kinds?

i would suggest uninstalling any Divx or CyberDVD programs and download the K-Lite Codec Pack Standard Edition and install it

that codec pack has 99% of anything you will need to watch anything

ati · 05-21-06, 03:40 AM

Sounds easy enough. Thanks.
Also on my widescreen dell laptop when i play videos in fullscreen there are still black bars, shouldnt they be gone since the screen is 16:9?

Fr3@k3r · 05-21-06, 04:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ati

Sounds easy enough. Thanks.
Also on my widescreen dell laptop when i play videos in fullscreen there are still black bars, shouldnt they be gone since the screen is 16:9?

hmmm... i took a closer look at the picture...

the Lighter black is the 16:9 part of the movie which is encoded.... the Darker black is your screen... it seems its not being fully stretched to your screen

Know Nuttin · 05-21-06, 09:31 AM

your laptop is probably 16:10 but the movie might be in 16:9.

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ati Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: FILIPINO DRIFTER	Windows media player dvd help. When i play it full screen, i see these bars that windows media player adds on the top and bottom and i can see another set of bars which looks like they where incoded with the dvd? You can tell which one is which because the windows media one is darker than the the dvd one. How do i remove the widnows media one or dvd one? Here is a picture of it. I dont know if you can see it. __________________ Onyx Abit IC7 P4 3.0E @ 3.6ghz Maxtor 300gig 16mb SATA 1gb 2x512 pc2100 @ 160mhz nVidia 6800nu 365/777 Forton Aurora 400watt (free from stratcatprowlin:cool: ) Coolermaster Aero 7 heatsink (free from stratcatprowlin:cool: ) Last edited by ati; 05-20-06 at 10:07 PM.
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05-21-06, 01:34 AM	Thread Starter #4
ati Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: FILIPINO DRIFTER	yea i use vlc, just wanted to try wmp since i dont use it much haha. whats the best decoder in your guy's opinion? is there even a difference between the different kinds? __________________ Onyx Abit IC7 P4 3.0E @ 3.6ghz Maxtor 300gig 16mb SATA 1gb 2x512 pc2100 @ 160mhz nVidia 6800nu 365/777 Forton Aurora 400watt (free from stratcatprowlin:cool: ) Coolermaster Aero 7 heatsink (free from stratcatprowlin:cool: )
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05-21-06, 03:40 AM	Thread Starter #6
ati Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: FILIPINO DRIFTER	Sounds easy enough. Thanks. Also on my widescreen dell laptop when i play videos in fullscreen there are still black bars, shouldnt they be gone since the screen is 16:9? __________________ Onyx Abit IC7 P4 3.0E @ 3.6ghz Maxtor 300gig 16mb SATA 1gb 2x512 pc2100 @ 160mhz nVidia 6800nu 365/777 Forton Aurora 400watt (free from stratcatprowlin:cool: ) Coolermaster Aero 7 heatsink (free from stratcatprowlin:cool: )
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