On Friday 19 Aug 2005 04:50, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 15:14 -0400, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
> > A while back I was playing with something like this: > > > > mencoder -quiet -ovc copy -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=128 > > -af volume=20 -of mpeg -aid 128 -o /dev/video16 dvd://1 > > Yeah, that works. 10% CPU utilization. Very nice. Only quirk is that I > can't get the aspect ratio correct. My DVD is this: <snip> > I tried using `-vf expand=0:-240`, but it doesn't work with `-ovc copy`: > http://itdp.fh-biergarten.de/mplayer-users/2002-07/msg01295.html > > Does anyone know of a tool that does the above, but also allows adding > black bars at top and bottom to correct aspect ratio, and is faster than > `mencoder -ovc lavc`? > > Alternatively, is it possible to get the PVR 350 to add the black bars > in hardware? To get the PVR350 to resize the video, try the ivtvfbctl command. Using the -window option allows you to resize the playback window. I think these numbers are correct, but you may need to change /dev/fb0 to point to the correct device for the PVR350. To letterbox 16:9 material for 4:3 playback PAL: ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -window 0 72 720 432 NTSC: ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -window 0 60 720 360 To watch 4:3 fullscreen PAL: ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -window 0 0 720 576 NTSC: ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -window 0 0 720 480 -- Ian ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
