> Duncan Webb wrote:
>> Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>> On Friday 19 October 2007 21:52:15 Duncan Webb wrote:
>>>> Hans Verkuil wrote:
>
>>>> So that I could randomly play the episodes I made a mistake
>>>> re-encoding a DVD to mpeg, yes I know DVDs are mpegs, by setting the
>>>> 4:3 bit in the stream.
>>> DVDs often use anamorphic widescreen, which has no black bars and I
>>> believe for these streams the video_aspect is indeed 16x9.
>>>
>>>> While everything was correctly proportioned mplayer shrunk the video
>>>> vertically and ignored the monitor aspect. The same applies to any
>>>> 16:9 that has been recorded with the 4:3 bits set.
>>>>
>>>> So I'm guessing that setting the 16:9 bit, recording will play
>>>> correctly.
>>> I don't believe so, but I can't test it at the moment.
>>
>> I'll let you know.
>
> Yes you are quite correct, does work with letterbox, should work with
> full format (Aspect ratio 6 & 7).
>
> In utils/ivtv-functions.h there is some stuff that is out-of-date:
> IVTV_IOC_S_GOP_END
> IVTV_IOC_STOP_DECODE
> IVTV_IOC_DEC_STEP
> etc
Yeah, I know. I need to weed out all the old stuff that's in utils and
docs. What I'd really like to do is to merge the last remaining driver
(saa717x) into the kernel and then create an ivtv-utils package.
Regards,
Hans
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