[mythtv-users] MythArchive - Aspect Ratio

[Christopher Maines]

> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:54:19 +0100
> From: Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com>

> There is a key mapping in  xine (F2 key) to jump to the root menu. You
> could change either the xine key mappings or the lirc key mapping so the
> menu button on your remote does what you want either should work.

Thanks. I'll try that out.

> >> When you say the menus looked squashed do you have black bars at the top
> >> and bottom with the menu in the middle? Is it both the main menu and
> >> chapter menu? If you use the G.A.N.T theme does the intro screen shown
> >> just before the video plays look OK?
> >>
> >>
> > The theme that gets burned to DVD looks very much like the samples
> > images you see when choosing which theme to use. By squashed menus
> > here, I'm only talking about the thumbnail images themselves. Although
> > the images do not have black bars at the top or bottom, they are
> > elongated, or squashed, in a letterbox aspect ratio rather than the
> > more squarish 4:3 ratio. The image that appears with the G.A.N.T.
> > themes just before the video plays is also the without black bars and
> > also elongated. The G.A.N.T.y tan background completely fills the
> > screen for both the main and chapter menus. The video, when it plays,
> > looks completely fine.
> >
> >
>
> OK I think I understand now. That's a different thing than the original
> problem where the entire menu was being scaled to the wrong aspect
> ration. I'm not seeing this at all. Maybe you could take a screen shot
> so I can see exactly what you are seeing.
>

Looks like the problem is mostly solved. The screen shots were the
key. The aspect ratios of the image thumbnails in the menus in the
older mythburn program are not actually 4:3 (a ratio of 1.333), but
more like 1.19, which gives a squarer image. Consequently the image
thumbnails in the MythArchive-created menus look elongated and "wrong"
by comparison. Actually, the image thumbnails in MythArchive have a
ratio of 1.4 instead of 1.333, which really >is< a little more
elongated than it should be. Now that the change you made in svn 10600
gives the correct aspect ratio of 4:3 on playback, I can easily live
with the 1.4 ratio for the image thumbnails. I made screen shots that
I can send if you would like them.

> >>> I also had a problem with one of the three burned shows - the audio
> >>> was ahead of the video by the end, although they started out together.
> >>> There isn't anything wrong with the show in MythTV. I know this isn't
> >>> necessarily a mytharchive problem, but I've burned about 150 DVDs
> >>> using mythburn in mythtv 0.18 and never had this happen before.

> Are you re-encoding the audio to AC3? or did the file require re-encoding?

>
> Paul H.
>

No, I'm not re-encoding the audio and the file is not being re-encoded
(unless application of the cut-list counts.) It's probably just a
"bad" recording, caused by something completely unrelated to
MythArchive.


Chris