[mythtv-users] Suggested Encoding Rates

[Niels Dybdahl]

> I myself have been trying to properly setup transcoding properly.  I
> believe I have some acceptable settings now to transcode my mpeg2
> hauppauge based recordings into an mpeg4 type recording, but run into
> issues with aspect ratios.  The recordings play back fine if I was to
> play them back in myth since it corrects for the right aspect ratio it
> seems, but if I use mplayer, xine, or windows media player on a windows
> box the aspect ratio is missed up.  Is there an easy way to correct this?

On Windows I use ZoomPlayer instead of Windows Media Player.
ZoomPlayer allows you to force the display to a certain aspect ratio.
It also starts faster.

Niels Dybdahl