[mythtv] Making Squished 4:3 -> 16:9 again for mytharchive DVDs?

[Paul Harrison]

Martin Møller wrote:
> Hi all, especially Paul.
>
> I have not successfully made a very nice looking DVD with mytharchive and am very happy with the current state of things.
>
> I have one question though: Some shows, mainly everything sent on ARD seems to be 16:9 content. I have no 16:9 profiles at this time and my TV is 4:3 anyway, so... - Anyway, the question is:
>
> When I record something on ARD. Everything is squished into the 720x576 resolution, which is fine and 16:9 aspect ratio is easy to set when playing back. Is there some way to instruct mytharchive that this is actually a 16:9 show and have it look right, without having to make the TV/DVD player change the aspect?
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> I've done a search of the mythtv-users list but didn't seem to find anything like this, although a lot of other aspect questions were touched upon.
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> I know I can probably change the mythburn script to force 16:9, but I am not sure that that will make it look like in MythTV and I might very well have both 4:3 and 16:9 recordings on the same DVD.
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> /Martin.
>
>   
Not really sure what your problem is?

You don't say what version you are using but using latest svn from trunk 
with a mix of 4:3 and 16:9 recordings works fine for me. The 16:9  
recordings are shown with black bars top and bottom of the screen. I'm 
using xine in fullscreen mode on a 4:3 monitor for testing.

Are these programs properly detected as 16:9 by MythArchive?

Paul H.