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I'm going to post miscellaneous information here regarding the Car-X and CarMedia iBus based media players.

Here is how to convert the video to fit on the 16x9 screen properly:

There is actually a solution to this issue without using a different solution for 16:9 display.

The easiest way to correct the aspect ratio would be to resize the video horisontally by 75%. This can be achieved in the following way:

1. Uninstall all video playback codecs from your CarPC Windows installation
2. Install a recent version of ffdshow from here. WMP and Car-X will now use this for decoding MPEG-4, DIVX and XVID. Make sure you include the AVS rendering option.
3. Install a recent version of AviSynth from http://www.avisynth.org/
4. Now, open ffdshow Video decoder configuration and select AviSynth checkbox. Make sure "Add ffdshow video source" is selected and paste the following code into the textbox:


global x=0
x=Width*75
x=x/100
BiLinearResize(x,Height)


5. This corrects the aspect ration for all content played, and all you have to do now is to choose a suitable zoom level to fill more or less of the screen.