[mythtv-users] Aspect rations?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Apr 7 23:32:16 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:12:51AM +0200, j2 wrote:
> I have a boggle with aspect rations on my Sony Wega (KV-32FX65E, (32"
> 16:9)), that I van not figure out.
> 
> The TV has a toggle for "4:3", "14:9", "Wide",  "Zoom" and "Smart".
> 
> When I watch TV (not via Myth) and when I watch stuff I _recorded_ on Myth,
> the setting I want it "Smart".
> 
> But when I want to watch a MPEG, DivX, or any other such format, I need to
> set it to "wide".
> 
> What on earth could cause two types of media use two different aspect
> rations on the mythbox. What setting may be wrong in my mplayer (I assume
> the problem is there) setup?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Aspect_ratio

The issue is that the TV is going to track the aspect ratio of the
*video signal* the mythbox is putting out, and they will *probably* not
track the aspect ratio of the program it's playing -- Myth will likely
letterbox wide stuff.

The whole thing is very hard to deal with because there's no accepted
standard *language* to describe the things being discussed that's
inherently obvious in its meaning.

Cheers,
-- jra
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