[mythtv-users] transcoding widescreen recordings

Peter VanDerWal peter at vanderwal.us
Wed Jul 9 09:33:14 UTC 2008


> Like you, in the meantime, I've created a workaround that suits me well
> enough for now. I run a userjob on the letterboxed 4:3 shows which crops
> the
> top and bottom 60 lines off the recording and resets the aspect ratio to
> 16:9 leaving all the other video codec parameters the same as the original
> file. What I end up with is a 720x360 16:9 mpg2 recording that looks
> almost
> identical to the original (sans black bars). I then insert the transcoded
> file in place of the original, run a commflag --rebuild, and mythtranscode
> --mpeg2 for good measure, and set the 'widescreen' flag in the database in
> place of the 'hdtv' flag (just to satisfy my OCD). The script can be found
> at http://shawnflynn.com/2008/07/06/removing-letterboxing-in-mythtv/ if
> anybody is interested in using/improving it.
>

Wow!  I just hit W a couple times.
But then again, I'm not interested in keeping any TV shows after I've
watched them.



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