How will a DIVX movie ripped from a DVD look on a HD TV when the DIVX movie has a resolution of 720by480 and the tv has a resolution of 1200 by 800. Will my DIVX player stretch the movie or will I have black borders left and right as well as top and bottom.
1200x800? What kind of tv do you have? Since it is a movie and DivX (to my knowledge) doesn't support anamorphic video, You will have black bars on all sides. There would be bars on the top and bottom even on a 720x480 (standard def) tv be cause the aspect ratios of movies are 16x9 (1.78:1) or wider. Not 4:3 (1.33:1).
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Was just wondering if a DivX movie can be enlarged on a HDTV so that here are no black bars at the side. As the DivX movie is 720 wide and the screen can show 1300ish wide.
Also to go along with this, if i have a high resolution, bigger then 720x480, DivX file, will it play on HD on a HD tv, or will it shrink it to a 720 x 480.
You mean a DivX-HD file? The player should send the signals out as they are. The problem is most hardware DivX players are DVD players that don't support high def resolutions. Those players won't play them at all.
The other thing is copy protection. I don't know if DivX uses copy protection on thier HD content or not.
Well, for example, if i download an episode from iTUNES or another source, and the resoluation of the file is more than 740x480, but is in a DivX format, will the DivX player output to the HD screen the RAW file as it reads it? Or does it transform the larger resolution down to the 740x480.
Quote:The player should send the signals out as they are.
Meaning the divx player will send the video to the tv at what every resolution the video is. I guess "RAW" wold be the term, except the video stream has undergone a Digital-to-Analog conversion.
My point was that only PCs have this ability. DVD players that play divx files may or may not support files with a resolution greater than 720x480 at all. I know my Philips DVP642 will simply say that the resulotion is unsupported if the resolution is higher than 720x525 (in NTSC mode). I'm not sure about upconvertion DVD players that support Divx though.
