[mythtv] Ticket #4872: Detect if video is letterboxed and switch to corect fill mode

Mårten Bohlin mabo at mochc.net
Mon Mar 10 09:06:42 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:32 PM,  <mythtv at longhome.co.uk> wrote:
> I've noticed that 2.39:1 letterboxed in a 16:9 stream also gets zoomed,
>  meaning part of the broadcast picture is lost. I would have thought that
>  only content in a 4:3 stream should be zoomed? Right?
>

That is strange because I test if width/height <= 1.5. And that is the
width and the height of the frame I am processing. So it should not do
anything about streams in 16:9.

What kind of stream is it? Is it possible that it starts in 4:3 and
then switches to 16:9?

Mårten


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