Aspect ratio resetting to 4:3, but only in WMP11

I record a good deal of video, always using a 16:9 aspect ratio. The camera
I use formats the video with a .MOD extension. WMP11 refuses to play the
video in anything other than 4:3. VLC, MPC & Zoom play the video correctly.
(VLC and MPC are setup to force 16:9, while Zoom worked with no problems.).
Manually changing the extension to .AVI or .MPG does not affect the playback,
and converting the files to any other format, using the default setting of
the source file, also does not fix the problem. I tried to following
software used to covert the files: Any Video Covnerter and Nero 7.

I have the latest DiVX codecs loaded as well as any that were installed with
VLC, MPC and Zoom. Nvidia video card (7950x2) with latest drivers. An
associate recommended that I install the CCCP codec pack...bad idea?

What am I missing? Why do I have to force players to display 16:9? Why
does WMP11 refuse to play these files in 4:3, and why are there no options
within the software to change the desired aspect ratio?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Popi
Thu Apr 03 06:35:02 PDT 2008

Duh! It's not the codec or the player...it's the camera. Seems when JVC and
Panasonic decided to use the .MOD extension, they also decided not to
properly implement the "widescreen" flag as well. SDCopy changes the file
extension AND properly formats the widescreen flag on the file.

"Popi" wrote:

> I record a good deal of video, always using a 16:9 aspect ratio. The camera
> I use formats the video with a .MOD extension. WMP11 refuses to play the
> video in anything other than 4:3. VLC, MPC & Zoom play the video correctly.
> (VLC and MPC are setup to force 16:9, while Zoom worked with no problems.).
> Manually changing the extension to .AVI or .MPG does not affect the playback,
> and converting the files to any other format, using the default setting of
> the source file, also does not fix the problem. I tried to following
> software used to covert the files: Any Video Covnerter and Nero 7.
>
> I have the latest DiVX codecs loaded as well as any that were installed with
> VLC, MPC and Zoom. Nvidia video card (7950x2) with latest drivers. An
> associate recommended that I install the CCCP codec pack...bad idea?
>
> What am I missing? Why do I have to force players to display 16:9? Why
> does WMP11 refuse to play these files in 4:3, and why are there no options
> within the software to change the desired aspect ratio?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Neil
Thu Apr 03 14:27:13 PDT 2008

Oh - I wasn't aware of that, thx for the info. Does this affect only
specific cameras in the range, or just the SD cameras ?

Cheers - Neil

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:35:02 -0700, Popi
<Popi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Duh! It's not the codec or the player...it's the camera. Seems when JVC and
>Panasonic decided to use the .MOD extension, they also decided not to
>properly implement the "widescreen" flag as well. SDCopy changes the file
>extension AND properly formats the widescreen flag on the file.
>
>"Popi" wrote:
>
>> I record a good deal of video, always using a 16:9 aspect ratio. The camera
>> I use formats the video with a .MOD extension. WMP11 refuses to play the
>> video in anything other than 4:3. VLC, MPC & Zoom play the video correctly.
>> (VLC and MPC are setup to force 16:9, while Zoom worked with no problems.).
>> Manually changing the extension to .AVI or .MPG does not affect the playback,
>> and converting the files to any other format, using the default setting of
>> the source file, also does not fix the problem. I tried to following
>> software used to covert the files: Any Video Covnerter and Nero 7.
>>
>> I have the latest DiVX codecs loaded as well as any that were installed with
>> VLC, MPC and Zoom. Nvidia video card (7950x2) with latest drivers. An
>> associate recommended that I install the CCCP codec pack...bad idea?
>>
>> What am I missing? Why do I have to force players to display 16:9? Why
>> does WMP11 refuse to play these files in 4:3, and why are there no options
>> within the software to change the desired aspect ratio?
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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