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Which player to use to view a cropped movie?

Hi, I have a movie that is cropped so that when I view it in full screen mode there are huge black borders around it. Which player or software can I use to stretch it even more so that it really will be full screen? I am not going to burn it, just watch it on the computer screen.

Thanks in advance

have you seen the new tv's elonged shape, or been in a theater lately" the picture is not square,most monitors
are almost square,not the shape of most files. i don't know of a player that will zoom the picture to cover your entire screen, but the phillips dvp 642 standalone will do this on your tv, only problem you lose most of the the picture,and quality. same if you did this to your monitor. the other problem doing this is it will show up every little flaw in the picture. cropped -norm. is done to cut off black borders or a flaw at the bottem or side of the picture , subs , etc. guess if you couldn't live watching it as is, you could crop the sides again untill it's square or the shape your after, and encode it over to that size, by the time you get all of this done ,you picture will be almost unwatachable or about 60 % of what it was before you started messing with it.or you could just tape off part of your screen and get your face real close .lol

i'd say stretch it! nothing makes me reminisce back to the old kung fu movies like stretching a widescreen or cropped film to fit a 4:3... i dont know why all producers dont do that automatically!

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Originally posted by Dwaggy
Thats alot of words for someone that sells DVDs out of the back of a truck

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when this happens i tend to play it on power dvd, it does have some basic zooming and size adjustment ability when you rightclick on the movie screen. a combanation of 2 settings usually can sort things out

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don't worry son i'll just use this vicks vapo-rub instead