<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jim Stichnoth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stichnot@gmail.com" target="_blank">stichnot@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, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Jeremy Jones<br>
<<a href="mailto:jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com">jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am having trouble getting my home video files to display using the correct<br>
> aspect ration in mythtv. The files should be displayed as 16:9, but when<br>
> played in mythtv they open as 4:3. I'm sure this is due to something<br>
> incorrect in the file itself, but for the life of me I can't seem to make a<br>
> change that tells myth the correct DAR. I tried sticking them in an mkv<br>
> file and setting the DAR to 16:9 using mkvmerge. After doing so mkvinfo<br>
> reports the resulting file as having a DAR of 853x480, yet mythtv still<br>
> shows it as 4:3.<br>
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</div>If you can create a short sample and open a new ticket, I will have a look.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>I hate to open a ticket yet. I'm still not convinced this is mythtv issue. If after looking at the video files you think it is worthy of a ticket, I'll open one. -->By the way I am still running .25</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks a bunch.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a 2-second unaltered sample: </div><div> <a class="filename" href="http://db.tt/O5QKHqrM">test.mpg</a> </div><div><br></div><div>both ffprobe and mediainfo report the DAR as 16:9 and the resolution as 720X480.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just to see what would happen I ran the file through mkvmerge with the following command:</div><div><div>mkvmerge -o test.mkv --aspect-ratio 0:'16/9' test.mpg</div></div><div><br></div><div>here is the resultant file:</div>
<div><a class="filename" href="http://db.tt/oCOoeWYM">test.mkv</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Both open and play in myth scaled to 4:3 aspect ratio. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div><br></div><div>Jeremy</div>
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