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truman
10-02-2004, 05:12 PM
I just received my hp 4700 and am a little disappointed in the fact that "Full Screen" viewing of my wmv files isn't full screen at all. In fact the video is half the size that it was on my old hp 3800 pocket pc. Also, under settings there is no option to "crop to fit" so I am wondering if this has been removed all together? Is there a setting that I am missing and if not, it this something that will be added back or fixed in WMV 10 for Pocket PC?
Deus
10-02-2004, 07:06 PM
Sounds like the film was encoded in a lower dimension setting. What are the dimensions of the film?
truman
10-02-2004, 07:36 PM
It was recorded at 320 x 240 which shows up full screen on my old - non-vga Ipaq 3800. I like recording at that dimension because I can store more hours of video that way - I just hope that there is some way that it can be viewed larger on the 4700. - Thanks for the response.
Darius Wey
10-03-2004, 08:28 AM
It was recorded at 320 x 240 which shows up full screen on my old - non-vga Ipaq 3800. I like recording at that dimension because I can store more hours of video that way - I just hope that there is some way that it can be viewed larger on the 4700. - Thanks for the response.

The hx4700 uses a VGA resolution (640x480) - could that be the problem?
Sven Johannsen
10-03-2004, 09:11 PM
There is a shrink to fit option on my WM2003SE X30. What I lost was the rotate 180 deg in landscape which is no longer needed because the OS can supply that right hand, left hand, switch. But you don't need a crop (or shrink) to fit, you need an expand, or stretch, to fit.

The problem is definately that you have a 640 x480 screen and you are playing only 320 x 240 pixels. That covers only a quarter of the screen. At least it is the center quarter. Everybody begged for higher resolution, this is one of the drawbacks. The options are to re-encode at 640x480 taking for times the file size, or pixel doubling in both directions to fill the screen, giving no appreciable benefit to having a VGA screen over a QVGA.

It is a shame that MP doesn't have a stretch to fit option. Maybe one of the many other video players does.
dragon3148
10-07-2004, 04:53 PM
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