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Philips 5990/12 - wrong aspect ratio @ DivX via USB | ||
| blackfrogg posted 2009 Jan 29 04:08 | ||
| Hello,
i'm using a Philips 5990/12 with vb6rocod latest firmware and a 320GB usb hdd on a 42" Panasonic Plasma (16:9) via RGB Scart. Everything works fine so far, except that my tv resolution/aspect ratio switches to the correct format when viewing DivX/movies from the usb drive. It works when i view DVDs, then it switches e.g. from 4:3 to 16:9 fullscreen. But with DivX movies it always stays on 4:3 and if the movie is 16:9 it squeezes the movie > conehead effect. Before you tell me, that I probably downloaded lots of crappy dvd rips with wrong compression headers ot sth., I tested a lot of different movies, without success. Is there somewhere a Divx testfile which should definitely work? And in the 5990 settings I set the tv format to 16:9. What can I do to make it work? Thanks in advance!! -blackfrogg | ||
| romi7519 posted 2009 Jan 29 06:44 | ||
| set it to 4:3 and test. | ||
| jagabo posted 2009 Jan 29 07:15 | ||
| Use HDMI instead of SCART. | ||
| blackfrogg posted 2009 Jan 29 07:17 | ||
| @romi7519: I will try 4:3 ... I think I tested that once...but didnt work...but I will try again.
@jagabo: my plasma doesn't have HDMI =( | ||
| jagabo posted 2009 Jan 29 07:58 | ||
| Can you manually force the TV to 16:9 after the AVI starts playing? | ||
| blackfrogg posted 2009 Jan 29 08:01 | ||
Yes I can do that...everytime manually....but because my sat receiver does that (as well as dvds automatically) I have to switch back to standard auto mode everytime I want to watch TV (because lots of tv broadcasts come in 4:3). I'm just wondering, why DVDs and SAT receiver are switching automatically, but DivX doesn't. | ||
| jagabo posted 2009 Jan 29 08:17 | ||
| I guess the 5990 isn't set the SCART widescreen signal pin when playing AVI files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART
Maybe vb6rocod broke this functionality. I found several problems with vb6rocod's hacks and have gone back to standard firmware on my 5990/37. You might try that too. | ||
| blackfrogg posted 2009 Jan 29 08:19 | ||
| Hm I should test that. Thanks for that tip. I upgraded my player from the first day on. | ||
| blackfrogg posted 2009 Jan 30 04:53 | ||
| So....I downgraded the firmware to the latest original from Philips, but aspect ratio still doesn't work.
Switching TV setting to 4:3 in the dvd player menu doesn't work as well. Any other tips? Does it work with your 5990 and 16:9 tv??? | ||
| jagabo posted 2009 Jan 30 08:09 | ||
Mine doesn't have SCART (USA model) so I can't test it. |
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