Well, I finally got a digital camcorder for my wife. It is a shiny new Canon Elura 100, which can record video in wide-screen. My question is this: how exactly is wide-screen stored? I grabbed some files using a DVD-authoring program. The files seem to look normal in that application.
BUT...
When I open up the same video files from within Windows Media Player, the video is squashed into a 4:3 standard aspect ratio, so I totally loose the wide-screen effect. On the plus side, my wife and I look thinner 😉 What am I doing wrong here with Windows Media Player?
Also, can you mix full-screen and wide-screen together on the same burned DVD?
And how exactly is data transferred over firewire? Is the vide that I am getting the same raw bits that are stored on the DV tape, or is the camcorder de-compressing the video and having my computer re-compress it in my video coded of choice?
Thanks in advance.
BUT...
When I open up the same video files from within Windows Media Player, the video is squashed into a 4:3 standard aspect ratio, so I totally loose the wide-screen effect. On the plus side, my wife and I look thinner 😉 What am I doing wrong here with Windows Media Player?
Also, can you mix full-screen and wide-screen together on the same burned DVD?
And how exactly is data transferred over firewire? Is the vide that I am getting the same raw bits that are stored on the DV tape, or is the camcorder de-compressing the video and having my computer re-compress it in my video coded of choice?
Thanks in advance.
