Anamorphic on the iPhone

[forzaphil]

I've got a few DVDs that I've ripped in Handbrake and then transcoded in VLC so that they play on the iPhone. Even though the ripped file is physically 720 x 432, when it is adjusted anamorphically, it's 1024 x 432 (or very similar). When I've transcoded the files in VLC I've scaled them to 480 x 270 which would be 16:9 and is my preferred aspect ratio for the iPhone. The trouble is that the iPhone respects the anamorphic settings and treats the file as 640 x 270 (2.35:1). As it can't fit that on to the screen (480 x 320) it scales the video during playback to 480 x 202 to keep the original aspect ratio. I find this too small to watch and if you use the iPhone's full screen mode it plays it at 1.5:1 which crops off too much of the action.

I'm not sure how to get around this problem, other than to crop the original video to 16:9 and try and force the iPhone not to try and treat it as anamorphic. I've started a separate thread to try and figure out the cropping, but is there some flag that indicates that this is an anamorphic video? Could I then force this to a different value?

Thanks

Phil