[diggis_tennis]

Hi All,

I have a 2014 5 series and I have coded it to play video in motion. I downloaded a few music videos off of youtube and play it from a usb stick. However some videos only fit half the screen whereas 1-2 fit almost 90% of the screen. How can I reformat or convert the videos to play them full screen without causing stretching??

below is the video info for the 2 videos. the 111mb file plays almost 90 % of the screen and the 41mb file plays just 50-60%. i see the aspect ratio is the same of the two videos, so not sure.

[diggis_tennis]

nvm i found the answer on a different forum

If you want a solution to this, you can always crop the video using HandBrake. It's a free video converter application for the computer, very powerful as well. However I wouldn't crop 16:9 videos to fit the iDrive screen because you would be cutting off a lot of content.

I recommend only cropping videos that are formatted 1.85:1 and 2.39:1, not 16:9 videos. The iDrive screen resolution is 1280x480, so you can crop these 720p HD videos down to that resolution or 1080p HD videos down to 1920x720 (equivalent to 1280x480) to fit on your iDrive screen.

Oh, and if you are trying to get rid of the black bars on top and below videos, HandBrake does that automatically when converting.

Good luck.

[fung0001]

Thx

[Simpaty]

Originally Posted by diggis_tennis

nvm i found the answer on a different forum

If you want a solution to this, you can always crop the video using HandBrake. It's a free video converter application for the computer, very powerful as well. However I wouldn't crop 16:9 videos to fit the iDrive screen because you would be cutting off a lot of content.

I recommend only cropping videos that are formatted 1.85:1 and 2.39:1, not 16:9 videos. The iDrive screen resolution is 1280x480, so you can crop these 720p HD videos down to that resolution or 1080p HD videos down to 1920x720 (equivalent to 1280x480) to fit on your iDrive screen.

Oh, and if you are trying to get rid of the black bars on top and below videos, HandBrake does that automatically when converting.

Good luck.

that is good info, thanks! Am gonna try that...

[John H.]

Good info. TY!