[mythtv-users] Calculating aspect ratios for DVDs

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Fri Jan 8 04:26:22 UTC 2010


Yan Seiner wrote:
> 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.
>>     
>
> Without further ado, here's the alpha version.  You will need
> mplayer/mencoder compiled with libdvdnav support, lsdvd, and dvdscan from
> DVDRipOMatic.  It also uses bc.
>   

OK, a bit more official:  http://www.seiner.com/encode.html

Would have been quicker but my wife tripped the breaker with the hair 
dryer.  Grrrr.... Bloody 60 year old house.

Anyone want to rewire my breaker panel with something from the current 
century?  :-)

--Yan

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