Using Windows Media Player 11 on Windows XP (on my widescreen, 16:10, 1280x800 laptop screen), anamorphic widescreen DVDs show with borders around all edges (at the correct aspect ratio though). It's as though WMP11 is set to "4:3 Letterbox" mode, and then is filling in the sides of the screen itself with black bars. But why??
The really stupid thing is that WMP11 on Windows Vista works fine with anamoprhic widescreen DVDs - they fill the whole screen horizontally, with bars at the top and bottom, as they should be. So it can't be a flaw in WMP11's core programming, but a flaw in either XP itself (which is unlikely since all other DVD players work properly), or something like the forgot to add anamoprhic support in the XP release for some reason.
Am I just missing an obvious option here and/or is there anything that can be done about it outside of using Windows Media Player Classic?
The really stupid thing is that WMP11 on Windows Vista works fine with anamoprhic widescreen DVDs - they fill the whole screen horizontally, with bars at the top and bottom, as they should be. So it can't be a flaw in WMP11's core programming, but a flaw in either XP itself (which is unlikely since all other DVD players work properly), or something like the forgot to add anamoprhic support in the XP release for some reason.
Am I just missing an obvious option here and/or is there anything that can be done about it outside of using Windows Media Player Classic?
