[mythtv] DVD Autoclipping

[Matt Cheely]

Matt Cheely wrote:
> I've been working on some code to do automatic cropping in dvds for 
> mythdvd using transcode's autoclip filter. I'm doing this for a couple 
> of reasons. 1) Letterbox detection seems brokeish 2) I've seen some dvds 
> of films that have wierd aspect ratios where letterbox detection would 
> likely leave empty space somewhere (mostly older/foriegn films).
> The first thing I wanted to ask is: Is this something anybody other than 
> me is going to be interested in using?
> 
> Secondly, it occured to me while working through the code that since we 
> know the dvd resolution and aspect ratio, we can compute resize/PAR 
> (pixel aspect ratio) paramters in mythdvd/mtd, so why have a separate 
> set of transcoding profiles for each dvd type? Why not just have 
> profiles that get applied uniformly across dvd types where the user just 
> chooses to stretch or shrink to get the proper aspect ratio? It seems 
> like that would simplify things a bit, and allow transcode profile 
> configuration to be opened up to the user in a not-too-confusing fashion.

Should I interpret from the lack of response that nobody else is 
interested in this, or was everybody just too distracted by the recent 
er... heated debate?