DVBviewer as a player

[Deathman_77]

Hi to everybody. I've been using DVBViewer long time to watch DVB-T SD tv broadcast, and I think it is perfect. I use either the nvidia codec or powerdvd codec with the hardware acceleration "on" for mpg, and the video image I got is perfect and smooth, all the live image and also the recorded one. If I try to watch the recorded video with other player, such as mpc, using the same codecs, the image is worst.

 

So, this smooth image is the reason why I would like to use DVBViewer to play all my media, mkv with h.264, divx, xvid and all that stuff. And here is the problem... almost every video I play got a wrong aspect ratio. Aspect ratio is set on "auto" in DVBViewer.

 

When I play a 16/9 aspect ratio video, some of then got black bands above and below the image. And other times, with other videos, it got fullscreen (in a 16/9 lcd screen). If the videos has a higher aspect ratio, the image is distorted (everybody in the video is fatter). If I play the same video with mpc or bsplayer, it has a correct aspect ratio.

 

Can you help me, please? What can I do?

 

Thank you in advance and sorry for my english, which is not my native language.

Edited October 21, 2009 by Deathman_77

[Valts]

Don't know solution for this so for me easier is to use other player for that.

[uglyned]

Can depend on the settings in the file you're playing.

 

Also different renderers seem to handle aspect ratio differently. The VMR ones were never very good. Overlay does well. EVR is pretty good most of the time but badly distorts the occasional MKV.

 

I just set one of my remote control buttons up to change aspect ratio then it doesn't really matter - a few button presses and it's fixed.

 

For me that's easier than launching other applications as I don't use a mouse or keyboard.

[Deathman_77]

Ok, i will try these things.

 

Thank U very much.