<br />On Sunday, August 25, 2013 08:15 CEST, Karl Dietz <dekarl@spaetfruehstuecken.org> wrote:<br /> <blockquote>On 20.08.2013 11:00, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br />> Hi again,<br />><br />> For a period, my set top box was spitting out to my hd-pvr in the wrong<br />> format (4:3 instead of 16:9). This was handled okay by the tv, but the<br />> recordings made during this time are all windowboxed and compressed<br />> 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 />Another idea.<br /><br />You could use MKVtoolnix and convert the recording to a Matroska file.<br />The tool reportedly allows to set a crop area and a different aspect<br />ratio. But the MythTV player is reported not to respect the
crop headers<br /><br />http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix<br />https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/1070090<br /><br />But we are in good company, GStreamer / Totem doesn't support it either<br />https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693971<br /><br />So this only answers the question for the aspect ratio until the crop<br />information is used.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Karl<br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</blockquote><br /><br />Thanks for both new replies Karl!<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />--Marius--<br />