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Stephe · 13th September 2014, 17:36

Thank you r0lZ and TheSkiller.

Lesson learned. I will no longer rely on VLC Player to test aspect ratio correctness.

I really only have VLC Player on my new Windows 7 machine instead of PowerDVD or WinDVD because of its screen capture capabilities (which aren't great but are better than that of PowerDVD or WinDVD).

WinDVD 8, which worked on my Windows XP machine, had great screen capture capabilities (allowing you to back up about a dozen frames and then advance one frame at a time) but WinDVD 8's patch is no longer supported by the manufacturer (Corel) and therefore the patch didn't work after I reformatted my PC. (WinDVD 8 still worked, but the WinDVD 8 patch, which greatly improves image quality, didn't.) WinDVD 8 also won't work in Windows 7.

I bought WinDVD 11, but found out the hard way that while WinDVD 11 Pro works in Windows 7 and 8, the plain version of WinDVD 11 works only in Windows 8. And its screen capture is no longer remotely as user friendly as it was in WinDVD 8. I was reimbursed by Corel.

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Stephe Registered User Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 18	Thank you r0lZ and TheSkiller. Lesson learned. I will no longer rely on VLC Player to test aspect ratio correctness. I really only have VLC Player on my new Windows 7 machine instead of PowerDVD or WinDVD because of its screen capture capabilities (which aren't great but are better than that of PowerDVD or WinDVD). WinDVD 8, which worked on my Windows XP machine, had great screen capture capabilities (allowing you to back up about a dozen frames and then advance one frame at a time) but WinDVD 8's patch is no longer supported by the manufacturer (Corel) and therefore the patch didn't work after I reformatted my PC. (WinDVD 8 still worked, but the WinDVD 8 patch, which greatly improves image quality, didn't.) WinDVD 8 also won't work in Windows 7. I bought WinDVD 11, but found out the hard way that while WinDVD 11 Pro works in Windows 7 and 8, the plain version of WinDVD 11 works only in Windows 8. And its screen capture is no longer remotely as user friendly as it was in WinDVD 8. I was reimbursed by Corel. Last edited by Stephe; 13th September 2014 at 17:39.