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If the pixel aspect ratio of the video and that of the monitor do not match, you cannot get the correct size. Period. But you still have the option of following the standards in how to compensate the differences. Or, you can pay no mind to standards. And that's not a "Period", it's a mean...

Thanks for the reply, but I didn't mean "I don't want anamorphic rendering". I must have worded my question in a very confused way (apologies for my non native english BTW). Trying again: I would just expect the "normal size" item in "video" menu to display the intended...

It's not actually a big problem, rather a puzzling behaviour. A 4:3 NTSC mpeg-2 stream plays at 720x540 resolution on VLC. The archived resolution is 720x480 and AFAIK on U.S. TV sets it's supposed to be displayed anamorphically at 640x480. I know that 720x540 is as perfect 4:3 as 640x480 is, and th...