<div dir="ltr">mkvmerge should be able to override aspect ratio. There's a GUI interface too if you need it.<div><br></div><div>CH</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2013 18:46, Marius Schrecker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marius.schrecker@lyse.net" target="_blank">marius.schrecker@lyse.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>On Sunday, August 25, 2013 08:15 CEST, Karl Dietz <<a href="mailto:dekarl@spaetfruehstuecken.org" target="_blank">dekarl@spaetfruehstuecken.org</a>> 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><a href="http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix" target="_blank">http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix</a><br><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/1070090" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/1070090</a><br>
<br>But we are in good company, GStreamer / Totem doesn't support it either<br><a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693971" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693971</a><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><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote>
<br><br></div></div>Thanks for both new replies Karl!<br><br>Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>--Marius--<br>
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