[mythtv-users] Odd squishing of aspect ratio by mythtranscode

[E. Westbrook]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:38, Zuriel <elpinkus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have also seen this, but it hasn't reached the top of my to-do list. All
> my
> content is widescreen, so I just set mythfrontend to 16:9 and forgot about
> it.
>

Thanks for the confirmation that I'm not alone!


> Oh, I also changed the default aspect ratio in Mythweb to 16:9 to make the
> thumbnails and flash video streaming use the correct aspect ratio. These
> were
> all defaulting to 4:3.
>

Right.  With this kind of output from mythtranscode, I think you'd pretty
much have to force the aspect ratio in any player, whether mythfrontend or
mythweb or mplayer or anything else.

Thanks for the coinciding observation,
Eric
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