DVD movie aspect ratio on 22" ACD

When I play DVD's on my 22" ACD (1600x1024, G4 400, OS 9.1 with included apple DVD player circa 2000), the DVD window refuses to use the entire screen. When I select full screen, it STRETCHES the window and distorts the DVD image.
Solutions / experience with this? Alternative/better DVD
player recommendations?
Thanks all,
rdavid

Selecting full screen in QT doesn't necessarily mean the whole screen will be filled with the image without borders. If the DVD was formatted in 16:9 mode, then you will have a thin narrow black strip top and bottom when playing in full screen mode. Similarly, if the DVD is a "Full screen" DVD, which means it is 4:3, then there will be black strips left and right in QT full screen mode.
You don't actually want such DVDs to truly fill the screen because that would cause distortion. An ACD is 16:10 format and no DVD made is formatted that way.

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Nick Holmes wrote:
What you have there is a mess.
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I am converting VHS movies to DVD. All are 4:3. Using Microsoft Movie Maker, I create the desired final result, a WMV file that plays perfectly--aspect ratio, sound, whatever.
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I see nothing in DVD Maker to adjust (in hopes that the original WMV might work for me), but just thought I'd ask.

Hi,
There’s similar thread discuss the DVD maker for 4:3 or 16:9 you can refer:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpromedia/thread/cd5edb7b-a4dd-43c9-ae95-20ac5692b2c6
And I find someone has submit it as a bug to our website, if our development team recognize it was a bug, they will fix it on next update.
Thank you for your understanding.
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