<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Saul A. Peebsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaglover@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaglover@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:22:36 -0600<br>
Jeremy Jones <<a href="mailto:jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com">jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> I am having trouble getting my home video files to display using the<br>
> correct aspect ration in mythtv. The files should be displayed as<br>
> 16:9, but when played in mythtv they open as 4:3. I'm sure this is<br>
> due to something incorrect in the file itself, but for the life of me<br>
> I can't seem to make a change that tells myth the correct DAR. I<br>
> tried sticking them in an mkv file and setting the DAR to 16:9 using<br>
> mkvmerge. After doing so mkvinfo reports the resulting file as<br>
> having a DAR of 853x480, yet mythtv still shows it as 4:3. Here is<br>
> the complete mkvinfo on the test file:<br>
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</div>I'm having the same issue, MPlayer scales MKV files correctly and<br>
MythTV does not.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>oops. I was very careful to not say that mythtv did something incorrectly, but it looks like you may have slipped that one in there for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just to be clear: I am asking for help in determining what I need to change in my home video files so that mythtv will be able to determine the aspect ration and scale that should be applied.</div><div>
<br></div><div>I move the files to my storage group using a script so changing the files with a script is perfectly reasonable. I don't want to loose quality or increase the file size unnecessarily though. I don't really want to transcode, but I can if that will be the only way to get the display to automatically show up correctly.</div>
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