Forum:VOB files get displayed letterbox instead of Anamorphic widescreen

I am using the SP to mainly play:

1) DVD movies stored as .iso files

2) DVD snippets stored as .vob files (These are segments/songs from Indian movies taken from the original DVDs)

I have a very large collection of both of these media and have had a media PC to play these for several years.

On the SP (got it yesterday and spent a several hours with it), 1) when I play an ISO I get proper (anamorphic) widescreen on my HDTV (connected via HDMI, TV set to 16:9 in the menu). 2) But when I play the VOB files, the picture is letterboxed. The VOBs ofcourse were taken from the same DVDs which are widescreen.

This is of course a big NO go! I absolutely need the picture in the VOBs displayed widescreen. I upgraded the firmware to 1.8.

Am I doing something wrong? Anybody playing VOBs and getting them play right? I'd imagine you can just copy a vob from any dvd (if you have them in folders) to try this out.

-Foobart

171.70.209.140 17:39, November 17, 2009 (UTC)foobart


 * When you play a VOB directly, you are playing the MPG component of the movie. Without the IFO, the ScreenPlay doesn't know what the aspect ratio is supposed to be.  So it doesn't stretch it accordingly.
 * I get the same thing. That's why you should play the IFO.  If you want to extract a clip out of the VOB, you should use converter software that can handle it.  Never tried any myself because I prefer to have the IFO files in.  I use DvdShrink and just build a new ISO, dragging the clips I want over in the order I want.  That gets rid of the menu and displays just the clips. --JCoug 14:53, November 19, 2009 (UTC)