Talk:Aspect ratio

I'd *really a lot* like to get some good pictures (not screen grabs; I want the TV bezels visible) for this section, illustrating the combinations in question. No flash; you'll have to use a tripod.
--04:30, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Merger

(Copied from Talk:Aspect Ratio --Gregturn 20:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC))

I'm a moron. I actually meant to link to Aspect ratio, which I had already written; I guess we'd better merge them.
--Baylink 01:49, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, after seeing no dispute, I have carried out the merger. --Gregturn 18:39, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that Greg. I was a little too close to my own writeup to be able to figure out how best to glue the other guy's into it. --Baylink 20:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

perhaps some more info on configuration in MythTV which is why people are here after all -Paul

Configure

So, about those black bars when having a true 4:3 show on 16:9. Is it possible to configure MythTV to display grey bars and not black?

Those are sent by the station, so not without cropping and replacing.--Steve Adeff 15:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

No, not those. Correct me if I am wrong, but I get a 4:3 picture from the network, and "MythTV" adds the black padding/borders on each side to fit my 16:9 layout. In "Standard" mode, ffmpeg is used, and in "mpeg2" mode libmpeg2 is used, am I correct? So if ffmpeg is used, the API should support changing the color (padcolor) of the stream, right? I might be way of now :-) --Hazze 20:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

You can set the color of the bars added by MythTV to black/gray (at least in 0.21-fixes)

--Dekarl 10:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

MythTV's aspect ratio override options

Could someone explain exactly what all the mythtv aspect ratio options do? This article does a good job of explaining what the tv can do, but skips over MythTV's options. What I would like to do is force MythTV to stretch any video to full screen, so that I can use the settings on my tv to correct the aspect ratio. --Turpie 01:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Aspect Ratio vs. Active Format Description

AR and AFD seem to be mixed up in some places. AR contained in the signal is about the transmitted frame. AFD is about the relevant content contained within the frame. e.g. a 4:3(AFD) movie within a 16:9(AR) stream to be displayed on a 4:3 screen. Myth could automagically display a full screen picture instead of a framed one. More about AFD at Wikipedia.