[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2029: mytharchive enhancement: correct aspect ratio output

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#2029: mytharchive enhancement: correct aspect ratio output
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 Reporter:  rd.mora at gmail.com  |       Owner:  ijr    
     Type:  patch              |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor              |   Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythtv             |     Version:  head   
 Severity:  medium             |  
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 Some dumb DVD players (like mine) need to be explicitly told what the
 aspect ratio of the video is and (in the cast of 16:9) how to handle it
 (nopanscan|noletterbox).  Additionally all video within a title must have
 the same aspect ratio.  Attached is a diff that encodes the chapter menu
 and details pages so that they are the same aspect ratio as the title (the
 main menu is assumed to be 4:3 - is this a reasonable default?).  It then
 inserts the appropriate XML tags into the dvdauthor.xml file to go with
 each video segment.

 Further, my DVD player showed its stupidity even further by completely
 screwing up 16:9  menus (background and mask were misaligned), even though
 I believe these should work (especially with my previous patch to include
 DPI information).  As such I have hard-coded the chapter menu to be 4:3 -
 this is OK because this video is in the menu of the titleset and thus has
 its own video attribute in the XML separate from the title's.  Please
 remove the hard-coding or make optional if you find that this works on
 other players.

 Finally you may notice that I do not know python at all, I only hack it -
 please feel free to improve :-)

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