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John_Cline wrote on 9/11/2002, 9:38 AM
Because in the interest of being able to play DV files at the full frame rate on slower machines, Microsoft decided to half the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the video which reduces the amount of data the computer needs to process to 25% of its original data rate.

You can defeat this behavior by doing the following:

Copy the lines below (in between, but not including, the dashed lines) and paste it into Notepad, then save it as a file called "hires.reg" (include the quotes when saving from Notepad, otherwise it will name the file "hires.reg.txt") Then double-click on the file and answer "yes" when it asks if you want to enter this into the Registry. Then reboot and your DV files will play at full resolution from within Media Player.

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectShow\DVDecProperties]
"PropDisplay"=dword:000003e8
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John
MixNut wrote on 9/11/2002, 12:35 PM
Thank you!

No thanks to microsoft...
SonyDennis wrote on 9/11/2002, 1:44 PM
John:

Some versions of Windows Media Player (at least on my XP box) have an option in the preferences dialog for DV decode size. It's nice how they move this stuff around for every release <g>.

///d@
Loomer wrote on 9/11/2002, 11:34 PM
"Some versions of Windows Media Player (at least on my XP box) have an option in the preferences dialog for DV decode size. It's nice how they move this stuff around for every release <g>."


man.. Am I the only one who didn't know about this? This sure makes viewing rendered files a hell of a lot better in WMP.. You'd think the setting would be a little more obvious.
John_Cline wrote on 9/12/2002, 1:31 AM
Yes, there is the decode size setting in WMP, however the registry patch will also deal with the DV decode size in all DirectX apps, like the Windows Media Encoder.

John