Lilliput - Playing DVD's in 16:9

**gwlund** · 11-25-2003, 12:36 AM

The answer to this is probably right in front of my face but can someone tell me the trick to playing DVD's on the Lilliput in 16:9 wide screen mode so the picture fills the screen (no black bands on top/bottom)?

**cproaudio** · 11-25-2003, 04:24 AM

It has nothing to do with the screen. You need to set your video card to display wide screen such as 848X480, 1024X600 or 1280X768
Edit: My FV24 is displaying 848X480 and tere's no black bars top and bottom when playing DVD unless its 2.35 aspect ratio. I do get black bars on the sides if I play 4:3 movies but I can always zoom in and still keep the original aspect ratio.

**Cheater2k** · 11-25-2003, 05:12 AM

The lilliput wont do that resolution though

**gwlund** · 11-25-2003, 08:16 AM

I am running 16:9 aspect ratio (800x480) and still black bars. There has got to be a setting for the video card/DVD software that's telling the LCD to use 4:3 mode. Anyone?

**blicky_1** · 11-25-2003, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by gwlund

I am running 16:9 aspect ratio (800x480) and still black bars. There has got to be a setting for the video card/DVD software that's telling the LCD to use 4:3 mode. Anyone?

I have found that different DVD's do different things, some are full screen and some you get the black bars........Is there anyway you can change the settings in ME to stretch?? as in Windvd or Powerdvd??

**Alric** · 11-25-2003, 09:16 AM

The lilliput screen is 16:9 and NOT cinematic widescreen so in most movies you will get upper and lower black bars.

Some movies are 16:9 and will fill the whole screen including most animated disney movies.

This is the same for regular widescreen TVs.

You can artifatually stretch the image using aspect ratio control but the image will stretched or compressed.

The whole explanation is here:

http://widescreen.org/widescreen.shtml

HTH

Alric

**Spec-V** · 11-25-2003, 10:06 AM

It all depends on the DVD and how it is coded.

Some are "Anamorphic" widescreen and some are "Cinema" widescreen. I believe the Anamorphic dvds have been specially coded to display on 16:9 screens with no black bars.

At least that is what happens on my 56inch HDTV (Widescreen) at home. Monsters Inc. shows perfect in full mode with no black bars... but Saving Private Ryan shows small black bars in the same mode. It all has to do with the dvd.

**DodgeCummins** · 11-25-2003, 10:13 AM

The quick explanation is if it is Anamorphic Widescreen or not.

Anamorphic has only the image data, and the player fills in the black lines at top or bottom if shown on a 4:3 screen. If shown on a wider screen the bars disappear.

Regular wide screen has the entire image plus black bars as part of the 4:3 image file. Those, the player "zooms in" and puts the edges of the image at the full width of the display and crops out the black bars if it is a wide screen.

The difference is simply resolution. The Anamorphic has for example say 500 lines of data within the visable image...the non-anamorphic has the same 500 lines, only it includes the black bars...so the actual movie image has less resolution than the anamorphic movie image.

However, if you have a correct wide screen setting, and go full screen on the player program, you shouldn't have a problem with the display.

**Gillious** · 01-08-2004, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by cproaudio

It has nothing to do with the screen. You need to set your video card to display wide screen such as 848X480, 1024X600 or 1280X768
Edit: My FV24 is displaying 848X480 and tere's no black bars top and bottom when playing DVD unless its 2.35 aspect ratio. I do get black bars on the sides if I play 4:3 movies but I can always zoom in and still keep the original aspect ratio.

How was you able to get the onboard S3 twister to allow you to use 848x480 res. No matter what I try the only choices i'm getting are 800x600, 1204x768 etc. I've tried using Powerstrip but the "custom resolution" button is greyed out on me.

Any idea's?

**zvi** · 01-15-2004, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by Gillious

How was you able to get the onboard S3 twister to allow you to use 848x480 res. No matter what I try the only choices i'm getting are 800x600, 1204x768 etc. I've tried using Powerstrip but the "custom resolution" button is greyed out on me.

Any idea's?

I have the same problem, I got into registry, edited everithing there, but did not help. my liliput shows 640x480 streched, though I have connected it to my desctop pc with Geforce2, set the resolution (driver supports it) 848x480@75Hz and it is perfect, but not on onboard VIA VGA........

any ideas??? :-)