[mythtv-users] Permanently overriding aspect ratio for specific recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/20/2013 10:05 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 15:30 CEST, "Michael T. Dean"  wrote:
>
>      On 08/20/2013 05:00 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote:
>       >  Hi again,
>       >
>       >  For a period, my set top box was spitting out to my hd-pvr in the
>       >  wrong format (4:3 instead of 16:9). This was handled okay by the tv,
>       >  but the recordings made during this time are all windowboxed and
>       >  compressed horizontally.
>       >
>       >  I know I can cycle through the aspect ratios for these recordinbgs at
>       >  playback, and I also know how I can override the aspect globally, but
>       >  haven't found out how to store the override persistently for the
>       >  specific recordings.
>       >
>       >  Can anyone help?
>
>      There's no support for this. You can transcode the recording and crop
>      out the bars and scale the video, or you can fix it at playback. MythTV
>      doesn't really support permanently "working around" broken videos.
>
>      Note, too, that it's possible--depending on how it's broken--that fixing
>      the videos may be as simple as changing the display aspect ratio in the
>      stream (i.e. may not require actually decoding/scaling/re-encoding the
>      video). I don't know which tools are best to use to do this, though.
>
>      Then again, there's the approach of just allowing re-record and picking
>      up re-runs.
>
>
> Thanks Mike,
>
> I'll poke around in the files themselves to see if the aspect can be patched there.
>

This is the kind of thing I was talking about, but I've never used it, 
so I can't vouch for it:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Restream

Mike