<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/12/2013 08:05 PM, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
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FWIW, there is no reason anyone in the world should ever set the Video<br>
Aspect Override setting--except for the never-gonna-exist-in-reality person<br>
who has 100% of all video sources providing incorrectly-encoded video that<br>
gives the wrong aspect ratio information, or you've misconfigured X such<br>
that it's telling MythTV the display is using some incorrect aspect.<br>
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I have to use the Video Aspect Override setting to force my 4:3 videos<div class="im"><br>
recorded on a PVR500 to display correctly on my 4:3 CRT SDTV because it's<br>
passing through an HDMI->Composite converter that is accepting a 720p<br>
signal. (Without the override they are squashed horizontally). I tried<br>
other video mode settings in X (thoroughly) but the aspect was still wrong<br>
so this is what I stuck with. It causes no other issues for us, though, so<br>
it's no problem.<br>
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This sounds like you have your recording profile set up to use 4:3 but are sending 16:9 to the PVR-500, so you've been using the "ignore the recording's specified bitrate" to work around the fact that you're encoding it incorrectly (i.e. 2 wrongs to make a right). It should also mean that any properly-encoded widescreen video will display incorrectly on your system.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, the PVR-500 is still recording 4:3. This problem only occurred when I switched hardware such that I no longer had a native TV-out and had to use the HDMI->Composite converter. I'm not sure if the default HDMI EDID modes even have a 4:3 option (but it doesn't really matter because the 720p looks best with this converter). Anyway, it's strictly a display issue because it happens with old recordings as well. I don't record any 16:9 content, but some DVD rips do display incorrectly (16:9 fills the screen when it should be letterboxed instead). We use videos infrequently, though, and it doesn't really bother us. The problem will go away when we buy a new TV, but we're not in any hurry...<br>
<br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>