[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2581: Allow changing of aspect ratio when transcoding

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#2581: Allow changing of aspect ratio when transcoding
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 Reporter:  wagspat@…               |       Owner:  cpinkham
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  minor                   |   Milestone:  unknown 
Component:  MythTV - Mythtranscode  |     Version:  head    
 Severity:  medium                  |     Mlocked:  0       
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Comment(by anonymous):

 I would prefer a different heuristic here.  Rather than just blindly
 cropping, we should pad with letterboxing/pillarboxing if needed, and crop
 if possible.

 ideally: we should strip off all letterboxing/pillarboxing, resize,
 transcode... then repad to the desired aspect ratio (per frame would be
 wonderful!), regardless of source aspect ratio.  This way we don't waste
 valuable bits on encoding black bars, AND we don't lose the contents as we
 would in some cases with a blind cropping.

 To do this would require intelligent cropping, and this would likely be
 slower than desirable though.

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