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[6233638]

I was wondering if there was a way to crop a 16:9 video and have it treated as if it were 4:3.
I have some videos where the actual content is 4:3 (actually, it should be 4:3, but it's slightly compressed horizontally) but they are inside a 16:9 frame.

The frame is quite bright and distracting, so I was wondering if there was some way to use the [Playback Info] field to achieve this.
I can't find any documentation on [Playback Info] though, so I don't know if it's possible to manually change these things.

I seem to recall being able to do this in MPC-HC by using its independent horizontal and vertical scaling controls to cut the edges off, then overriding the aspect ratio to be 4:3. All I can find in Media Center is "zoom".

[JimH]

Try a right click for some options that may help.

You can zoom with the mouse wheel, and MC will remember it for the next play.

[6233638]

Thanks Jim.

If I just zoom the video, the top and bottom get cut off.

If I set the aspect ratio to 2.40 and crop the image, it almost stretches the video out to fill the screen, cutting off the sides - but there's no way to then correct that to 4:3, rather than showing a stretched 4:3 image.

Ideally there would be independent H/V stretch controls, and I could then use "Override aspect ratio" to display the scaled image as 4:3.

[JimH]

Can you adjust your monitor (or TV)?

[6233638]

Can you adjust your monitor (or TV)?

No, with 1080p it’s locked to 1:1 mapping.

And these are low resolution videos, so editing the file is not an option either.