[mythtv-users] What resolution am I recording at?

[Daniel Agar]

> I've got a question about the resolutions I'm making my recordings at.
>
> I set my mythtv frontend to record at 720x480 resolution.  I've got a
> mythdora 4 combined FE/BE, but the setting that I am talking about is on
> the
> frontend under setup>tv settings>recording profiles>mpeg2 encoder cards.
>
> I set my GNOME/X to run at 640x480.
>
> V4l2-ctl tells me that my encoder card is set for 480x480 output.
>
> I have a 4:3 television and was under the assumption that all my videos
> coming out are 720x480.  I realize now that's not a valid 4:3 resolution,
> but it really doesn't matter at this point because I'm not sure that
> setting
> affected much of anything.  I checked the mpg files produced by my
> hauppage
> pvr-500 and a single screenshot of them has a resolution of 640x480.
>
> So am I right in assuming that the resolution I'm recording at is 640x480?
> Why does v4l ctl tell me that my card is outputting 480x480?  Is my
> mythbox
> upconverting to make it 640x480?
>
> This is all relevant because as I'm exploring nuvexport, it's pulling from
> the database that my movies are 480x480, and that it needs to crop them to
> 460x460, so what I am left with is a clip where the right side of the
> movie
> is missing.  To remedy, I just hardcoded into the mencoder.pm that the
> crop
> setting should be 620x460, but I really think my editing of the scripts is
> just a hack and not the correct way of going about it.
>

Did you change the resolution for all recording profiles? The default
profile is what is usually used for recordings.