[mythtv-users] UPnP, DLNA and Aspect Ratio

[Mark Lord]

On 11-06-07 04:17 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:03 AM, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Having recently succeeded in recording some HD DVB-T2 material into
>> MythTV, I've treated myself to my first HD Television:  an LG32LE4900.
>>
>> Lots of new features to play with, one of which is DLNA.
>>
>> The TV finds my MythTV box, and serves up and plays Myth's TV
>> recordings quite well,  but it plays them back in 4:3 format, with
>> black bars down the sides.  The TV offers two screen sizes during
>> playback: "Full" and "Original", but both give the same 4:3 aspect
>> ratio.
>>
>> Now as far as I can tell this is something the TV should sort out
>> rather than MythTV (I'm going to try and play the same files via the
>> USB interface), but I thought I'd ask....
>>
>> Is there anything within MythTV UPnP, that can be tweaked, that would
>> affect the aspect ratio with which the DLNA client plays the video?
>> I've browsed through the MythTV UPnP wiki pages but can't see anything
>> that looks particularly relevant.
>>
>> When playing the same files via the Myth frontend they play in 16:9 format.
> 
> same on my LG 55LW6500, but I prefer a real frontend anyway.

The Samsung LCD here seems to get the aspect ratios correct over DLNA
from the mythtv box.  Playback is incredibly smooth too (120HZ) over DLNA
compared with VDPAU (which otherwise looks excellent itself).

The Samsung UI is crap though, so I use it only for files that Mythtv
totally chokes on.

Cheers