<span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6em">On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 16:23 CEST, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com> wrote:</span><br /> <blockquote>On 08/20/2013 10:05 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br />> On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 15:30 CEST, "Michael T. Dean" wrote:<br />><br />> On 08/20/2013 05:00 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br />> > Hi again,<br />> ><br />> > For a period, my set top box was spitting out to my hd-pvr in the<br />> > wrong format (4:3 instead of 16:9). This was handled okay by the tv,<br />> > but the recordings made during this time are all windowboxed and<br />> > compressed horizontally.<br />> ><br />> > I know I can cycle through the aspect ratios for these recordinbgs at<br />> > playback, and I also know how I can override the aspect globally, but<br />> > haven't found out how to store the override persistently for the<br />>
> specific recordings.<br />> ><br />> > Can anyone help?<br />><br />> There's no support for this. You can transcode the recording and crop<br />> out the bars and scale the video, or you can fix it at playback. MythTV<br />> doesn't really support permanently "working around" broken videos.<br />><br />> Note, too, that it's possible--depending on how it's broken--that fixing<br />> the videos may be as simple as changing the display aspect ratio in the<br />> stream (i.e. may not require actually decoding/scaling/re-encoding the<br />> video). I don't know which tools are best to use to do this, though.<br />><br />> Then again, there's the approach of just allowing re-record and picking<br />> up re-runs.<br />><br />><br />> Thanks Mike,<br />><br />> I'll poke around in the files themselves to see if the aspect can be patched there.<br />><br /><br />This is the
kind of thing I was talking about, but I've never used it,<br />so I can't vouch for it:<br /><br />http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Restream<br /><br />Mike<br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</blockquote>Thanks again Michael,<br /><br /> Looks good. The only problem is that the hd-pvr spits out h264.<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />Marius<br /><br /><br /><br />