after gettin a ws tv a while ago i have been so busy with real life am only now having the time to play around with settings to optimise my viewing pleasure. i have two questions really (forgive me sounding like a dumb ass but am not at home atm so cant try things out):

currently i seem to be forever switching modes on my tv to get the right AR for films. i have just noticed that bsplayer has options for AR settings 1) keep AR and 2) AR orig/4:3/16:9. are these for input or output? should i uncheck keep AR and set other to 16:9?

my second question is my tv is dolby pro logic so should i change the audio output for anything. i know there are settings for the ac3 in control panel and also windvd has settings for the number of speakers etc so does anything need changing anywhere for me to get the best out of the audio or does all the seperation/processing go on in my tv?

btw my film playin pc is an old pii 450 512mb ram SB live 1024 gf2 400mx. it runs win2k sp4, bsplay, windvd and has the gknot codec pack and ogg codec installed and that is about it. not that powerful but does the job reasonably well

When watching a 4:3 movie keep BSPlayer set to the original AR and watch on the TV in 4:3 mode.

For 1.85 ratio movies set to 4:3 in BSPlayer then use the widescreen mode (or whatever stretches the image horizontally) to fill the screen, and for 2.35 movies use 16:9 in BSPlayer and then do likewise.

You'll probably get small black borders though in any mode.

As for the audio, you'll get surround sound if BSPlayer is set to stereo, providing you have connected your PC to the TV in a way that can carry a stereo signal. If the TV is just pro-logic and not DD5.1 then don't bother enabling AC3 in BSPlayer. This also depends on what the sound mix of the movie is, old movies will be just mono, some just plain stereo without any rear information.

thanks for the reply is mostly wot i was doin cept for the 1.85:1 suggestion. my tv has auto AR which dont always pick the best AR, else:
regular (plain 4:3 with side bars)
panoramic ('intelligent stretched' 4:3 i think)
14:9 zoom (not sure wot this AR is for)
16:9 zoom
16:9 zoom subtitle (leaves slightly larger bottom border if subs are out)
full (stretched 4:3)
is linked from my pc via svhs for the picture and line out mini jack to L & R phono input on my tv for the audio

wot about 1.65:1?