I'm just going to ramble on and describe my problem. I'll provide a little technical info at the bottom. Please let me know if you have the solution.

I stream videos from a wide variety of sources: I rip DVDs, I snatch from Youtube, I download from Usenet, I get sent videos from friends. The formats are most often mkv, avi, or mp4. When I verify the videos on my PC (with a variety of players) the picture looks perfect. However, when I stream them to the TV, the aspect ratio is often messed up. My TV only has a couple of settings for aspect ratio, and sometimes, none of them are very good, so I wind up trying to watch a screenfull of suddenly obese characters, or the ends of the picture are chopped off. Since the videos display perfectly on my computer, something must be screwed up during the transcoding or streaming. However, I don't see what changes I might make to the Mezzmo settings that would affect this (you should excuse the expression) aspect of the problem.

Does someone know the secret? Thanks,

Don

Computer: Dell Studio XPS 9100
Processor: Intel Core i7 960 @3.20GHz
Memory: 8 GB
OS: Win7 64-bit
Mezzmo: 3.0.2.0
TV: Sony Bravia KDL-40HX800
Connection is Wi-Fi