[mythtv] Aspect ratio changes

[steve at nexusuk.org]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Steve Davies wrote:

> I believe that this information is already encapsulated in MPEG2/4 streams 
> (each fram will have a width and height, from which the ratio can be 
> calculated?) and this is what the existing scaling code uses to determine the 
> output ratios. It seems to work on my DVB-T system, and was working okay when 
> I was using a PVR-250.

>From looking through the code I can't seem to find any evidence of the 
aspect ratio being encoded on a per-frame basis (but if anyone knows 
different, please correct me).  Are you sure it isn't just being scaled by 
the encoder instead of by the decoder?

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