Tivo to Go Video Stretched Out on Media Player

[CR]

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So I got Tivo2Go to work, but when I watch video on Media Player 10,
it looks like someone took the video from the top and bottom and
stretched it out to look like a spaghetti western on tv.. any ideas?

 

[Sean]

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On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:31:34 -0800, cr@crazy.com wrote:

>
>So I got Tivo2Go to work, but when I watch video on Media Player 10,
>it looks like someone took the video from the top and bottom and
>stretched it out to look like a spaghetti western on tv.. any ideas?


Contact Tivo and request payment for your work as an Alpha test site.

Or contact yoru cable company and request a product that is not
poorly designed and written.

Sean

 

[Guest]

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Sean <none> shaped the electrons to say:
>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:31:34 -0800, cr@crazy.com wrote:
>>So I got Tivo2Go to work, but when I watch video on Media Player 10,
>>it looks like someone took the video from the top and bottom and
>>stretched it out to look like a spaghetti western on tv.. any ideas?
>Contact Tivo and request payment for your work as an Alpha test site.
>
>Or contact yoru cable company and request a product that is not
>poorly designed and written.

Yeah, because that'll help him with the content on his PC... wait, no
it won't, cable company DVRs don't have the features TiVo has.

For the OP - that's a video codec issue. Some codecs to handle the
aspect ratio correctly, instead of 4:3 they presume the pixels must be
square so a 480x480 looks stretched.

There have been some threads around here, or TiVoCommunity.com, about
switching codecs.

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<cr@crazy.com> wrote in message
news:s2p1311tr30g6ap3k1uul9qp6pnrh1isjr@4ax.com...
> can't believe in this day and age people can be so blind so as to
> project their own personaliies onto others and be the last to notice
> it..
>
> twice you've offered up bile in as many times as you've gone out of
> your way..
>
SNIP

>>
>>It's unlikely a top posting twit like you could fix anything on your
>>own.
>>
>>Sean

Don't you just love how people will badger you to death on Netiquette such
as top posting yet they appear to be completely lacking in any sort of
social graces and resort to juvenile name calling or personal insults? Man
this Internet thing is unbelievably entertaining!

Cheers
TC

 

[Guest]

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>>It's unlikely a top posting twit like you could fix anything on your
>>own.
>>
>>Sean

There are advantages and disadvantages to top posting. There are advantages
and disadvantages to bottom posting. There are even advantages and
disadvantages to interpolating your response throughout the body of the
quoted message. None of the choices is endorsed by God.

I use whichever method seems to make the conversation easiest to follow. I
hope you do too. I certainly don't think one's choice warrants a scurrilous
attack.

Norm Strong

 

[Guest]

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> There are advantages and disadvantages to top posting. There are advantages
> and disadvantages to bottom posting. There are even advantages and
> disadvantages to interpolating your response throughout the body of the
> quoted message. None of the choices is endorsed by God.

I basically agree with this, however I would add that the *default*
choice ought to be bottom posting w/ everything snipped but the relevent
parts. I'd say the most PITA posters are not those that top post, but
those that refuse to snip anything and make you wade through 200 lines
of quoted text to read their very important "Me too!" comment at the
bottom. It's rare that there should ever be more than 6 or 7 lines of
quoted text without an added comment.

> I use whichever method seems to make the conversation easiest to follow. I
> hope you do too. I certainly don't think one's choice warrants a scurrilous
> attack.

Total agreement from me here. Unfortunately many posters are too lazy
to snip text or modify their news clients default posting style.

Randy S.