[mythtv-users] Calculating aspect ratios for DVDs

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Thu Jan 7 18:00:15 UTC 2010


On Thu, January 7, 2010 9:45 am, jedi wrote:

> You seem to want something that can pull the aspect ratio direct from the
> video itself even accounting for embedded letterboxes. I am not aware of
> anything that does that. It would be somewhat cool if there were such a
> tool. I do this manually for 4:3 content that is letterboxed.

That's exactly what I want.  Considering all of this is available -
mplayer will do letterbox detection quite well - it seems to be doable
with the right scripting.

I'm working on it; stay tuned.  Just want to make sure I'm not reinventing
the wheel if such a tool was available.

--Yan

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