I recently upgraded from Connect HD to Neo HDV. I'm a Sony Vegas user. Anyway, since upgrading to Neo, I'm having some aspect ratio problems that I didn't have before. WMP playback of Cineform clips, both those converted by Connect HD and Neo now look vertically stretched to 4:3 aspect ratio whereas they used to show properly as 16:9 before the upgrade.
Virtualdub also now messes up the aspect ratio (it didn't before). So does DVDit Pro HD. I'm sure it's just a simple playback flag issue or something like that.

The latest update of Neo fixed this problem.

That is good, I don't how the bug occured or how it was fixed. Now I don't have to find out. :)

I'm reviving this old thread because this problem has resurfaced in the last several revisions of Neo HDV.

Not that it's a really big deal, but it's probably easy to fix.

The problem is that when I watch 1440x1080 clips in WMP, the 16:9 gets squished into 4:3.

The reason this is a important to me is that when I render a Cineform codec master it looks squished when I try to play it in WMP. I can't see it at the right aspect ratio until I render it into m2t or AVCHD or some other format.

I know you guys can do it because you did it before.

We never saw it here, so it like like something something on your PC. Are you running Vista?

I'm running Vista 64 Ultimate on my new machine. My old one was a P4 with XP Pro. I've had the same problem with both machines.

WMP is supposed to show the right aspect ratio right?

I also have Vista x64 and see the same problem, but not for every Cineform avi. I can't figure out why WMP does this, since no other media player does.

Does it have to do with the Cineform decoder registry quality setting?

The is a known issue with Window Media Player under Vista, everywhere else it works.

OK, I see now. The aspect ratio looks fine in Media Player Classic.