Samsung DVD-HR725 HDD Recorder - Playback Aspect Ratio Problem

[Ext User(Justin Wigg)]

Hi again all...

Got a question for anyone out there with one of these units. I have the
aspect ratio on the 725 set to 16:9 and when I record internally on
either HDD or DVD and play it back then everything's fine. Also,
playing commercial DVDs is fine.

However when this unit plays the discs that I have authored on my PC
(including either raw DivX files or authored DVDs) then the Samsung
seems to be trying to go into some kind of super-widescreen mode and
the aspect ratio is compressed. (I notice that it does the same thing
on any photos that I import.) It's like it thinks the aspect ratio on
the disc is 16:9, and the player is set to 4:3 letterbox. Therefore
it's adding black bars to the top and bottom of an image that is
already 16:9. I'm guessing that it's one of two things:

1. I need to change something on the player.
2. There's something on my PC that needs to be set to write the video
file correctly. (I don't seem to be able to tell the DivX burner what
ratio to burn it at though. PowerProducer doesn't have that option
either, so I'm thinking this is not the issue?)

I'm assuming that it's nothing to do with running an HDMI output as
everything's fine for commercial discs. Can anyone out there give me
any help?

Thanks in advance...

Justin

[Ext User(princo coasters)]

G'day!

You'll need to change the player settings to output 4:3 ratio when playing
your divx and photo discs.

A pain, but you'll need to do it to view them correctly - then use your w/s
tv zoom/full buttons etc to get the ratio right on the tv.

cheers.


"Justin Wigg" <juthan@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hi again all...
>
> Got a question for anyone out there with one of these units. I have the
> aspect ratio on the 725 set to 16:9 and when I record internally on
> either HDD or DVD and play it back then everything's fine. Also,
> playing commercial DVDs is fine.
>
> However when this unit plays the discs that I have authored on my PC
> (including either raw DivX files or authored DVDs) then the Samsung
> seems to be trying to go into some kind of super-widescreen mode and
> the aspect ratio is compressed. (I notice that it does the same thing
> on any photos that I import.) It's like it thinks the aspect ratio on
> the disc is 16:9, and the player is set to 4:3 letterbox. Therefore
> it's adding black bars to the top and bottom of an image that is
> already 16:9. I'm guessing that it's one of two things:
>
> 1. I need to change something on the player.
> 2. There's something on my PC that needs to be set to write the video
> file correctly. (I don't seem to be able to tell the DivX burner what
> ratio to burn it at though. PowerProducer doesn't have that option
> either, so I'm thinking this is not the issue?)
>
> I'm assuming that it's nothing to do with running an HDMI output as
> everything's fine for commercial discs. Can anyone out there give me
> any help?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Justin
>