#12 Aspect Ratio Menu in MPC

[David]

Could you add an Aspect Ratio menu, right next
to "Video Frame" and "Pan&Scan"? Perhaps custom
aspect ratios could also be supported, like with
Pan&Scan. This seems to be the only major feature that
MPC is lacking, but really needs.

Thanks for the best player on Earth!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I second this.

A lot of stuffing around with Pan&Scan "Edit..." to get DVD
playing to the "correct" onscreen aspect ratio.
MPC startup settings currently gets PAL VOB/DVD aspects
completely wrong.

Some documentation (or even just simple notes in the "Edit.."
dialog) about what the "Pos: 0.0 -> 1.0" "Zoom 0.2 -> 3.0"
actually mean.

[David]

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The reason why Pan & Scan is not good enough for this is
because one needs a different preset for resoultion for each
aspect ratio, instead of just one preset per aspect ratio.

[stopd]

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"Pos: 0.0 -> 1.0"
means you can change the position of the picture and the
input field accepts values from 0.0 to 1.0, with 0.5 beeing
centered.

"Zoom: 0.2 -> 3.0"
the zooming of the picture and the input field accepts values
in the range from 0.2 to 3.0, with 1.0 beeing the non altered
size.

first box seems to be picture width and second one is picture
height.

[David]

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Correction: "...for EACH resolution..."

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I third this :)

---quote---
A lot of stuffing around with Pan&Scan "Edit..."
to get DVD
playing to the "correct" onscreen aspect ratio.
MPC startup settings currently gets PAL VOB/DVD aspects
completely wrong.

Some documentation (or even just simple notes in the
"Edit.."
dialog) about what the "Pos: 0.0 -> 1.0" "Zoom
0.2 -> 3.0"
actually mean.
---quote---

I have found a way (for now) to make it easier for proper
Aspect Ratios for PAL DVD/VOBs:
In Options - Playback - Video : Choose either :
Video Mixing Renderer 9 (Windowed)
Video Mixing Renderer 9 (Renderless)

We NEED someone to make an MPC.CHM file PLEAAAAASSSE!!
And PLEAASSSE add a Simple ASPECT RATIO SubMenu to the
View Menu and Context Menu!! Authors.. try playing PAL
DVD/VOB yourselves and you WILL agree with this! And one
more request please... A Simple OPEN FILE button (upward
pointing triangle) on the Controls ToolBar... much easier and
less clicks.

Cheers. Keep up the great work!

[stopd]

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"A Simple OPEN FILE button (upward
pointing triangle) on the Controls ToolBar... much easier and
less clicks."

how about:
associate your files with MPC
click the tray icon
use 'Send To'

[sfp]

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I fourth the aspect ratio menu idea :)

[sfp]

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Just thought of something to add to this: It would be nice
if the menu allowed me to adjust the aspect ratio by
specifying either the desired display aspect ratio or the
desired pixel aspect ratio.