[mythtv-users] Permanently overriding aspect ratio for specific recordings
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Aug 20 14:23:10 UTC 2013
On 08/20/2013 10:05 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 15:30 CEST, "Michael T. Dean" wrote:
>
> On 08/20/2013 05:00 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > For a period, my set top box was spitting out to my hd-pvr in the
> > wrong format (4:3 instead of 16:9). This was handled okay by the tv,
> > but the recordings made during this time are all windowboxed and
> > compressed horizontally.
> >
> > I know I can cycle through the aspect ratios for these recordinbgs at
> > playback, and I also know how I can override the aspect globally, but
> > haven't found out how to store the override persistently for the
> > specific recordings.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
>
> There's no support for this. You can transcode the recording and crop
> out the bars and scale the video, or you can fix it at playback. MythTV
> doesn't really support permanently "working around" broken videos.
>
> Note, too, that it's possible--depending on how it's broken--that fixing
> the videos may be as simple as changing the display aspect ratio in the
> stream (i.e. may not require actually decoding/scaling/re-encoding the
> video). I don't know which tools are best to use to do this, though.
>
> Then again, there's the approach of just allowing re-record and picking
> up re-runs.
>
>
> Thanks Mike,
>
> I'll poke around in the files themselves to see if the aspect can be patched there.
>
This is the kind of thing I was talking about, but I've never used it,
so I can't vouch for it:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Restream
Mike
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