I tried to use Windows media player to watch a DVD movie (New not burned).

The movie is a wide screen version and I have a 26" LCD wide screen monitor.

 

When I play DVD I get a wide screen version but it is fairly small. When I click full screen I get a slightly larger version but no where near "full" wide screen size. I used the 200% enlargement with little effect. I also tried changing screen reolution to various settings with the 1260x720 giving the largest actual picture, but agin only about half of the actual screen is being used. When I run other progams on the PC I get to use the entire screen. Is there a simple solution to this problem?

As a side not media player crashed at least 6 times over a 2 hour period and I had to restart.

2 points to make here..

 

1st, is the video card setup for only 1 monitor in the display control panel ??

 

If you are using an nVidia display adapter, then the setting should look like the one in the image below:

 

 

 

 

You never did specify what video adapter your PC uses...and if setup incorrectly, it sees 2 screens by default.

 

Next, Windows media player is kind of a generic DVD playback system, it uses drivers from other dvd software to work, and it does a poor job at it..

 

Have you concidered using other software such as Cyberlink's PowerDVD ?

 

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