Getting fullscreen when playing DVD

[John Bailo]

I just bought a Acer 22W (widescreen) monitor.

I wanted to watch a DVD on it.

When I set either Media Player 11 or Real Player 10 to fullscreen
theatre mode, it doesn't really use the full screen area.

There is a dark black frame of unused space. There are also two
lighter black bands at the top and bottom of the image.

Is there any way to get it to use the whole screen?

I have an Nvidia NX-6600 card and I'm using the DVI video cable.

My screen resolution is 1680x1050.

 

[ArtemisKitty]

The problem stems from the fact that a widescreen video is a 1.35:1
ratio, fullscreen is 4:3, whereas HDTV screens and most widescreen
monitors (as is yours) are 16x9, or 1.77:1 aspect ratio. I don't know
for certain in those two programs, as I use PowerDVD myself, or more
often the (free) Media Player Classic program. (you can download the
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack which contains every codec for every type of
video out there, as well as Media Player Classic), and it has an option
to check or uncheck as far as preserving aspect ratio when running in
fullscreen mode. You can either have it magnify/zoom (clip the edges a
little) to fill the screen, or stretch the picture a little bit to fit.
I find that the clipping of the edges is preferable, but some people
don't mind/notice the stretched image too much. I'd check to see if
Windows Media Player itself has that option, or if not, switch to the
K-Lite Codec Pack and Media Player Classic. (So called because it looks
like the old version of windows media player, and was originally based
on it.) - Also if you have surround speakers, it can properly decode
AC3 and DTS to them, even if you (like me) only have 4.1 speakers
instead of 5.1 Again, in the options screen, under the filters section
there's a selection for each type of audio, and how many speakers you
have, as well as where they are. It'll downmix even 6.1 or 7.1 audio,
or upmix 5.1 into 7.1 if that's what you're running. Awesome stuff, and
all free. Hopefully you can get it to work! Good luck!