Help with my new setup, well at least tell me its working fine

sid · 18 Oct 2006 at 15:02

Hi,

I just took the delivery of a LG 37" LC2D screen and its connected to to Telewest by SCART and more importantly its connected to my pc via HDMI - DVI cable.

I tried playing some HD stuff and the quality is insane. I got some 720p WMV HD videos from MS and they work fine with VLC player and fill the whole screen perfectly.

Problems include

720p videos from Quicktime are borderline stuttering

and don't fill full screen which is lame but anyways.

DVDs look fantastic but does anyone know how to get them fill screen at 1360*768. Its got large black borders on both top and bottom, isn't the whole point of a widescreen TV, is to get rid of them? I've tried VLC and windvd so far.

HTPC spec

AMD 2500+ at 1.83ghz, ( QT 720p is only stutter free at 2.2ghz when clocked)
Geforce 4 ti4400 81.95
512mb ram (doesn't seem to be getting used a lot tbh.
Win xp pro

any ideas how to make DVDs display full screen.

sid · 18 Oct 2006 at 15:18

Edit 1/

Just tried Saving private ryan and that went full screen without any black borders?

any ideas how this is supposed to work?

Edit 2/ Tried Bourne Supremacy and that has black lines top and bottom taking up a big chunk of the screen. Thats ridiculous tbh.

sid · 18 Oct 2006 at 16:11

OK Problem figured out

Most of these dvds are 2.40:1 or some lame anamorphic format.

Saving private ryan is 1.78:1 or 16:9 so that play full screen fine

Ok so I can't be the only one with the problem, how do i zoom to full screen, i can't seem to find any way to do so on the TV , is there any software that will fix these dvds for me

sid

sid · 18 Oct 2006 at 16:23

Ah thanks for the replies so far,

I am wee'd off to know after blowing a grand on a tv i still have problems. I am suprised they do this tbh, Glad i haven't bought hunderds of dvds in 2.35:1 format lol

Im downloading powerdvd now, I have ffdshow installed . not sure how to use it tbh.

sid

sid · 18 Oct 2006 at 18:56

OK well

powerdvd seems to work fine and the picture quality is very good as well,

tried a few games and they look good too.

Would reccomend this TV to anyone. top stuff.

sid

sid · 18 Oct 2006 at 19:21

Musashi said:
Definitely get the Nvidia purevideo codecs (you are supposed to buy them!) and to get the best out of playback you need a Nvidia 6600 or better otherwise some of the MPEG2 decoding is offloaded onto your processor

Well i don't have a geforce 6 series card so that would be pointless surely?