[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out on widescreen?

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Friday 09 January 2004 02:11, Steve Davies wrote:
>
> I have a MythTV box with a DVB-T card. This means that the MPEG2 streams
> vary between aspect ratios, and can even change mid-stream. The ideal
> result would be if 16:9 images were decoded into the 4:3 frame
> "anamorphically", and 4:3 images had black bars placed left and right
> before being treated the same as 16:9.

D'oh. Shoulda looked at your email address. Had I done that, it would have 
been obvious you weren't trying to play back ATSC streams... :)

> As you say, the TV would need to operate in a mode that stretches the
> picture horizontally. From looking at the firmware documentation on the
> ivtv site, the PVR-350 can encode into either a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio
> file, but the decoder always assumes 4:3.

I really need to just up and get a 350 myself...

> If this is true, I'll just have to keep trying to get a better picture out
> of my Geforce4 card.

I want to do a comparison of standard-def TV output to my HDTV via component 
video from a GF4MX (my current setup) versus standard-def TV output to the 
same set via a PVR-350... I'm pretty happy with what I get now, but people 
keep saying how great the 350 is. ;-)

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