How to get video to display right

[ncarty97]

Hello. Got my 521 a week ago and have mostly been loving it.

One issue though, when I watch some video, it doesn't look right. The video in question has a native resolution of 708x480 (standard widescreen DVD). I know the 521 has a native resolution of 800x480. The video plays fine, but everything looks elongated. I've tried the two options that change the 'stretching' if you will and neither make it look right. I don't mind re-encoding the videos, but I generally use handbrake and I can't seem to get it to do anything that would make the video look correct.

Any thoughts? Thanks

 

[Corepc]

Reencode videos to 720x480 see if makes the difference Or 640x360 depending on aspect ratio of original video. I use winavi reencode videos with in either avi or mp4 format.

 

[ncarty97]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

 

[Corepc]

Playing around with some video this morning and using the PC App MediaInfo to get aspect ratio of video.

708x480 is 3:2 aspect ratio, so is 720x480 which will give same results most likely.

But 720x406 is 16:9, so is 640x360 so those should appear right.

2.35:1 aspect ratio use 720x272
2.40:1 aspect ratio use 720x264

that should help you some more.