[mythtv-users] 1:1 aspect ratio for Internal Player?

[Steve Adeff]

On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:25, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2006, at 23.12, Steve Adeff wrote:
> > I've been using the Internal player for playing back xvid's and
> > notice that
> > the aspect ratio is forced to 16:9 making the image look wrong. Is
> > there a
> > way to get the Internal player to use 1:1 instead so that it
> > displays with
> > the proper aspect ratio?
>
> Don't you mean 4:3, not 1:1? Also, what kind of display are you
> using? Is it a widescreen TV, or is it something like a computer
> monitor? Also, does the XviD file happen to have an erroneous aspect
> ratio coded into it (MPlayer can do those things)? Does this happen
> with other files? Does this happen only with XviD encoded files?

no, they're 1:1 encoded xvids. I'm playing it back at 1280x720 (16:9) for my 
TV. they playback fine using mplayer on the Myth machine (because it doesn't 
try to change the aspect ratio) and on XBMC(same reason). There is no aspect 
ratio coded in to the avi as when I play it back in mplayer the aspect ratio 
comes up as the w/h=2.35 the proper aspect ratio.

> This might not be a proper solution, but try remuxing the file as a
> Matroska file, and tell it to use the 4:3 aspect ratio on the video
> track. Maybe MPlayer will read that and display it properly.

nope, cause only the internal player is forcing it to be played back at 16:9

-- 
Steve