separate vertical/horizontal stretch

[zmth]

Is there any way to have separate pan control or stretching of the vertical and horizontal. Mainly
i have the 4/3 ratio like most older tv's and actually want to have full screen of wide ratio videos but not stretched in the vertical direction so would like crop the horizontal but not vertical. Also what does movie mode mean and desktop mode . I looked in forums but could not find answer.

[BSPeter]

Maybe read this thread (click here).

In 'movie mode' ([M]-key), BS.Player puts movie at top, subtitles at bottom and enables pan-scan as needed
In 'desktop mode' ([D]-key), the movie is shown as your desktop's background.

[zmth]

Originally Posted by adicoto

As for the aspect ratio, the easyest way to deal is with shift+1, +2 and +3 (original, 16:9 and 4:3).
As for resizing, I think I didn't understand exactly what you are trying to say.

Am trying essentilly to crop the horizontal- that is chop off parts of extreme rt and left so that it won't appear more stretched and unnatural in the vertical direction when go to a 4/3 aspect on videos that are like 16/9 or even higher like 2/1 or sometimes more - if i just chop off the horizontal extremes or stretch the horizontal only which would do the same thing then when go to 4/3 which abnormally stretches the vertical then it would look more natural at the expense of loosing some horizontal coverage. I would try the ctrl num keypad stuff but can't as i have laqptop with NO numeric keypad - only ONE set of numbers

[zmth]

Have a partial solution.First find out how to turn lap top keys into like num key pad fct. then the '+' and '-' keys of num keypad,or simulation ,do stretch it equally but if in default aspect ratio say 16/9 etc. for example wider than the standard 4/3 then keep using '+ to get it larger and while in full screen will still not occupy the unused top and bottom portions of the display BUT if toggle out of full screen and back in then it does occupy more and more of the unused portions top/bottom. And is effectively like cropping the outer horizontal but not vertical portions of display - sort of fully using the screen as if went to a 4/3 aspect ratio but instead of stretching the vertical more than horizontal it just cuts off part of the outer horizontal display. Key point is must first be in num keypad mode and also toggle out of and back into full screen mode till get it adjusted as desired. Haven't figured out exactly how to get a combination of a less than max unequal stretching - the max unequal being just only going to a 4/3 aspect ratio while the default is a higher ratio - and horizontal cropping.