Tumble
12-05-2008, 04:33 PM
I've never rented a video from the iTunes store, but from movie previews I gather that the newer 16x9 rentals display at a resolution of about 853x480. I assume that they play at the proper aspect ratio on an iPod. What I'd like to know is how Apple encodes the videos so that the iPods recognize them as anamorphic. I've read that VisualHub was capable of doing this but that application isn't available anymore. Using HandBrake I was able to encode an anamorphic file (640x480, 853x480 display size) that iTunes will recognize as anamorphic, but my iPod Classic doesn't recognize that it's anamorphic (the video fills the screen). I tried using QuickTime Pro, changing the scaled size of a 640x480 movie to 853x480 (in movie properties/visual settings) but that didn't work either. I even tried the FFmpeg command-line to convert the video, but my iPod still displays it at full screen (4x3 instead of 16x9). Any ideas anyone?