I have used mythtv for DVB recordings. I live in western europe, so the transmissions are in PAL format. I have configured the capture format to be 720x576 in resolution, because I heard that's my cards native capture format. I have tried both rjmpeg and Mpeg4.
When I tried to export recorded shows (with nuvexport-dvd, current version) to be burned to DVD, I faced a problem; my newly created mpeg-files become distorded in their aspect ratio (meaning that they are "flat faced" (people seem too tall)). There is also blank space on the left and right of the screen, for about 30 pixels each. I've tried to edit my /etc/nuvexport.rc with no luck (I've included that files <DVD>-region on this post).
Note that this is purely Nuvexport problem, the shows that are not yet exported play fine and with correct aspect ratio in mplayer or in windows, with nero mediaplayer. And it's not a problem with my DVD-authoring tool either, infact QDVDAuthor complains about an unknown aspect ratio.
The /etc/nuvexport.rc:
<generic>
path = /part3
use_cutlist = yes
multipass = yes
noise_reduction = yes
deinterlace = yes
crop = yes
</generic>
<DVD>
vbr = yes # Enable vbr to get the multipass/quantisation options
# (enabling multipass or quantisation automatically enables vbr)
multipass = no # You get either multipass or quantisation; multipass will override
quantisation = 5 # 4 through 6 is probably right... 1..31 are allowed (lower is better quality)
a_bitrate = 384 # Audio bitrate of 128 kbps
#v_bitrate = 960 # Remember, quantisation overrides video bitrate
width = 720 # Height adjusts automatically to width, according to aspect ratio
height = auto
</DVD>
---Notes;
I have tried tweaking above width and height with no luck as of yet. For example changing width to 768 (as someone in this list succested). But still I think the problem lays in this configuration file. Anyone had luck exporting DVB pal recordings to DVD, and with what resolution/video-options?
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