[mythtv-users] HD recordings reverting to SD?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/12/2007 11:54 AM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> I can say that I've seen it here too.  Recorded Chuck last week and it 
> was in SD for the first 20 minutes or so.  It was in wide screen format
> but squashed down to 4:3 letter box.  Looked really weird with black 
> bars all around.

Yep.  And Myth's aspect/fill settings allow you to zoom it back out, but
the only problem is that you don't know how long it's like that,
so--depending especially on content--you may not notice when they "fix"
it and you end up watching only a small portion of the video.  Same
thing happens with manual zoom when the broadcaster has the video in
some small part of the screen so they can put their news/weather
advertisement--I mean weather alerts--over 25% to 75% of the screen.

I just wish I could think of a reliable way to detect that things have
changed so we could alert the user.  For now, I tend to use manual zoom
to zoom in on most of the show and leave a little of the "extra" (black
bars/alerts) still on screen so I can notice when they disappear.

Mike