On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:04:34 +0000, Frank smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI I'm in the UK, Cardiff, and noticed your post on this. > I note that channel 5 does indeed change the aspect to wide screen I > think. > We don't get any black bars just lost picture area which in adverts is > OK with me! > > Not sure if channel 4 does this I'll take a look. > > Cheers > Bob > > > > Is this a physical aspect ratio change or does the frame stay the same > > ratio and have black bars on the top/bottom? I have a sample of a UK > > broadcast that uses the black bars and will be trying to code up something > > to detect that transition so it can be used to determine where commercials > > start/stop. If you mean a physical frame aspect ratio change, then I'd > > like to detect this at some point but don't have any sample recordings > > to test with right now (I'm in the U.S. with analog cable). > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > Yes, just to confirm Channel 5 does this in a lot of its programs and I did think to myself what an excellent way this would be to skip adverts.
When watching it on my backend it mythfrontend actually does a frontend change to the extent that you sometimes actually get a flash of blue screen while its changing, I can host a clip of such an aspect ratio change if needed as I recently recorded "Snake Hunter: 7 Deadliest Snakes" which features the aspect change. -- Regards, ~CM
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