Why doesn't full 1080 video play at full screen in WMP?

[riahc3]

I have a 1920 x 1080 display and when I try to play back a 1920 x 1080 video it does not fill the full screen.

Why?

No, I refuse the use another media player. Period.

 

[HOSED]

What is the source of the video, recorded TV, downloaded content, video camera ? Have you tried any settings on your monitor?
There are also suggestions here http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/168831-windows-media-player-12-full-screen-problem.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_6982592_windows-play-hd-full-screen.html

 

[Ketchup]

When you put it into full screen mode, what do you see? What parts of the screen aren't fiiled, and what is in the nonfilled space?

Care to tell us what the video is?

 

[Phynaz]

HDCP protection in Windows. Use an HDMI cable to your display or a different media player.

 

[riahc3]

What is the source of the video, recorded TV, downloaded content, video camera ? Have you tried any settings on your monitor?
There are also suggestions here http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/168831-windows-media-player-12-full-screen-problem.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_6982592_windows-play-hd-full-screen.html

The source is also 1920x1080

When you put it into full screen mode, what do you see? What parts of the screen aren't fiiled, and what is in the nonfilled space?

Care to tell us what the video is?

The typical black bars on top and bottom

HDCP protection in Windows. Use an HDMI cable to your display or a different media player.

This video does not have HDCP. Im using it with a DVI as I do not have HDMI.

 

[OlyAR15]

What are you watching? Could be that the aspect ratio is not 16:9.

 

[Morbus]

If I may add something, do not use windows media player. Seriously, get something else. ANYTHING else.

Suggestion? Media Player Classic. Beats everything else (apart in the looks department).

 

[riahc3]

If I may add something, do not use windows media player. Seriously, get something else. ANYTHING else.

Suggestion? Media Player Classic. Beats everything else (apart in the looks department).

Honestly, do you guys even read the first post?

Just in case:

No, I refuse the use another media player. Period.

What are you watching? Could be that the aspect ratio is not 16:9.

Media info shows me this:

General
Complete name : D : \video.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 2.83 GiB
Duration : 1h 52mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 3 611 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2014-12-23 01:37:54
Tagged date : UTC 2014-12-23 01:37:54

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 52mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 3 482 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 3 518 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.070
Stream size : 2.73 GiB (96%)
Encoded date : UTC 2014-12-23 01:37:54
Tagged date : UTC 2014-12-23 01:37:54

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1h 52mn
Source duration : 1h 52mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 42ms
Stream size : 101 MiB (3%)
Source stream size : 101 MiB (3%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2014-12-23 01:37:54
Tagged date : UTC 2014-12-23 01:37:54

 

[Ketchup]

The source is also 1920x1080


The typical black bars on top and bottom

This is normal for a movie. Usually TV shows are 16:9 and 21:9 are used for most movies. If it is showing all the way across the screen, your video is showing correctly.

 

[ArisVer]

Does it happen with all the 1080p videos or just with this particular one?

 

[OlyAR15]

No, what show or movie are you watching. The resolution of the encoded video is irrelevant if the original show has a different aspect ratio.

 

[MongGrel]

If you refuse to use another media player, good luck.

Cya.

 

[ronbo613]

Originally Posted by riahc3
No, I refuse the use another media player. Period.

Well, then deal with it.

Period.

 

[Morbus]

Honestly, do you guys even read the first post?

I wasn't speaking to you, per say. You're either trolling us or are beyond redemption. Either way, you don't want to read what I wrote, so I didn't aim at you.

Have a nice life.

 

[riahc3]

This is normal for a movie. Usually TV shows are 16:9 and 21:9 are used for most movies. If it is showing all the way across the screen, your video is showing correctly.

I understand what you are saying but since it is 1920x1080, shouldnt the player scale it full screen? Since it is the same as the actual film?

Does it happen with all the 1080p videos or just with this particular one?

This movie is 2014 BTW so it doesnt use anything strange.

I believe so but let me check....

Nope. With a trilogy from the 95, 99, 2010, it does not happen...
Another film, it DOES happen. Same thing. Gets cut off.
Another film it shows full screen.
And again another it does show full screen.


So it seems it might be the film. Intresting.

No, what show or movie are you watching. The resolution of the encoded video is irrelevant if the original show has a different aspect ratio.

It is a standard movie from Blu-Ray

Here is what Im talking about

http://i.imgur.com/R2IHbM4.png

Where the red dots are image appears and disappears (I put the credits as I think it would show a lot better what I ment)

 

[VirtualLarry]

I understand what you are saying but since it is 1920x1080, shouldnt the player scale it full screen? Since it is the same as the actual film?

No, there's this little thing called "aspect ratio".

 

[riahc3]

No, there's this little thing called "aspect ratio".

Yup, understood.

The aspect ratio should be 16:9
Thats what MediaInfo shows

 

[R0H1T]

Well there are options within this media player to fit the video to a given display, right click then see for an option with something like aspect ratio ~ one of the options could work for you provided the actual video is indeed 16:9 like your monitor. I don't have it installed right now otherwise I'd have shown you the option, it's pretty common though & you'll find it within VLC, Light Alloy & pretty much every other free/paid media player except WMP D:

 

[zebrax2]

The black bars could be encoded within the video stream itself. Maybe that's why mediainfo shows a resultion with an aspect ratio of 16:9 instead of 21:9

 

[Micrornd]

It sounds as though you are watching a 21:9 AR movie that was converted to 16:9 AR for home or computer viewing.
In that case, the video is reduced to about 1920x820 to maintain the AR and black bars are added above and below the video to make it fill the screen.

If that was not done and it was viewed at full height on a 1080 screen both sides of the video would be cut off.
You see these black bars all the time when watching theatrical movies (21:9 AR) on your 16:9 home TV, but the "made for TV" movies are shot @ 16:9 AR so they fill the screen.

 

[Ketchup]

It sounds as though you are watching a 21:9 AR movie that was converted to 16:9 AR for home or computer viewing.
In that case, the video is reduced to about 1920x820 to maintain the AR and black bars are added above and below the video to make it fill the screen.

If that was not done and it was viewed at full height on a 1080 screen both sides of the video would be cut off.
You see these black bars all the time when watching theatrical movies (21:9 AR) on your 16:9 home TV, but the "made for TV" movies are shot @ 16:9 AR so they fill the screen.

The black bars could be encoded within the video stream itself. Maybe that's why mediainfo shows a resultion with an aspect ratio of 16:9 instead of 21:9

I am in line with this thinking as well.

 

[smitbret]

I have a 1920 x 1080 display and when I try to play back a 1920 x 1080 video it does not fill the full screen.

Why?

No, I refuse the use another media player. Period.

You sound like kind of a doucher.

Anyway, all BD media must be in 1920x1080 format to be Blu-Ray certified.

Many movies are shot at 2.40:1 instead of 1.78:1, giving it the ultra-wide look. Those films have a resolution of 1920x800. If you were to load a video file of 1920x800 into some BD players, it wouldn't know what to do with it since it is programmed to ONLY playback 1920x1080 and doesn't know what to fill the missing parts with. The studio's editor sticks 140 lines of black bar at the top and bottom to fill out the frame and the BD player just sees the 140 lines at the bottom, 800 lines in the middle and 140 lines at the top and says, "Excellent, it's 1920x1080". It doesn't care that the bars at the top and bottom are actually nothing but empty space, it just needs something, anything at all, really to be there. That's why MediaInfo sees it as 1920x1080, because it is. The only way to get rid of the bars is to crop or otherwise distort the image by stretching the actual visual field by 280 pixels but that would make everything much taller and skinnier than it should be.

Maybe you could write to the Hollywood studios and ask them to stick to full 16:9 in the future. I am sure they'd be more than happy to sacrifice their artistic license so that you can keep using a crappy Media Player.

 

[tential]

Low Bitrate, 2 Channel Movie...
Black Bars encoded into the source of the movie...

I wonder where this low quality rip was obtained from....

 

[ronbo613]

You sound like kind of a doucher.

Maybe you could write to the Hollywood studios and ask them to stick to full 16:9 in the future. I am sure they'd be more than happy to sacrifice their artistic license so that you can keep using a crappy Media Player.

I'm the doucher(whatever that is)? You seem to have the doucher market cornered.

 

[riahc3]

It sounds as though you are watching a 21:9 AR movie that was converted to 16:9 AR for home or computer viewing.
In that case, the video is reduced to about 1920x820 to maintain the AR and black bars are added above and below the video to make it fill the screen.

If that was not done and it was viewed at full height on a 1080 screen both sides of the video would be cut off.
You see these black bars all the time when watching theatrical movies (21:9 AR) on your 16:9 home TV, but the "made for TV" movies are shot @ 16:9 AR so they fill the screen.

I am in line with this thinking as well.

Yeah. I would have to agree that it is a video problem and not the actual player. Found this out when I tested other 1920x1080 media I had.


Thank you ketchup79, OlyAR15, VirtualLarry, zebrax2, and Micrornd. You guys are truely helpful members and I wish there were more of you in AnandTech.

I would give another message to the rest of the members that replied but Id problably get banned so...not worth it.