[mythtv-users] aspect ratio of home video recordings in video library

[Saul A. Peebsen]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:22:36 -0600
Jeremy Jones <jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am having trouble getting my home video files to display using the
> correct aspect ration in mythtv.  The files should be displayed as
> 16:9, but when played in mythtv they open as 4:3. I'm sure this is
> due to something incorrect in the file itself, but for the life of me
> I can't seem to make a change that tells myth the correct DAR.  I
> tried sticking them in an mkv file and setting the DAR to 16:9 using
> mkvmerge.  After doing so mkvinfo reports the resulting file as
> having a DAR of 853x480, yet mythtv still shows it as 4:3.  Here is
> the complete mkvinfo on the test file:

I'm having the same issue, MPlayer scales MKV files correctly and
MythTV does not. 

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Cheers, Saul