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Post by Philip Chidlow »

... or for those who've reached the end of their tether with their BX :lol: and need some therapy...

(BTW it seems we can't view this widescreen - does anyone know if there's a way we can?)

• 1992 Citroen BX TZD Turbo Hurricane
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Anyone know what model that is/was?
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Post by macplaxton »

Anamorphic widescreen I think. It's the way it's been uploaded to YouTube.

Best you can do is download the YouTube video (dead easy if you are using Firefox as your browser and have "Download Helper" add-on) and play it with a decent video player (such as VLC) where you can fiddle around with the aspect ratio.

It views okay when stretched back out to 2.21:1.
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They are great cars arn't they? :D

I love the way after cutting the tailgate off it gets slung back in the car and the way he disapointedly inspects the door after it has been blown off??????
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Post by Philip Chidlow »

I downloaded VLC for MacOSX and it's brill. Worked a treat.
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I have VLC on openSUSE 11.2 here. I suggested it because it's cross-platform and it's the mutts nuts too. A real "does-what-it-says-on-the-tin" player and will play a LOT of different formats.

It really handy for listening to podcasts as it can do time stretching (speeding up playing without the "chipmunk effect"). Using double arrows at the end of the time strip is the coarse adjustment. Using the square brackets is the fine adjustment. 1.3 speed is dead easy to understand, 1.7 is a bit like speed reading. Gets me through the pods in no time.