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On Jan 8, 2006, at 15.32, Steve Adeff wrote:
On Sunday 08 January 2006 16:13, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
On Jan 8, 2006, at 13.39, Steve Adeff wrote:
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:25, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
On Jan 7, 2006, at 23.12, Steve Adeff wrote:
I've been using the Internal player for playing back xvid's and
notice that
the aspect ratio is forced to 16:9 making the image look wrong. Is
there a
way to get the Internal player to use 1:1 instead so that it
displays with
the proper aspect ratio?
Don't you mean 4:3, not 1:1? Also, what kind of display are you
using? Is it a widescreen TV, or is it something like a computer
monitor? Also, does the XviD file happen to have an erroneous
aspect
ratio coded into it (MPlayer can do those things)? Does this happen
with other files? Does this happen only with XviD encoded files?
no, they're 1:1 encoded xvids. I'm playing it back at 1280x720
(16:9) for my
TV. they playback fine using mplayer on the Myth machine (because
it doesn't
try to change the aspect ratio) and on XBMC(same reason). There is
no aspect
ratio coded in to the avi as when I play it back in mplayer the
aspect ratio
comes up as the w/h=2.35 the proper aspect ratio.
That's wrong. 16/9=1.77777777778, not 2.35.
But, judging from what's been said, It sounds to me like MythTV is
telling MPlayer to change the pixel aspect ratio from 1:1 (which is
what you want) to 16:9. I guess you need to go into your video
playback settings and make sure all pixel aspect ratio options are
disabled.
I have a bunch of xvids of movies from DVD and other 16:9 sources.
all black
bars have been removed and the files encoded at 1:1 pixel ratio.
MPlayer, Xine, VLC, XBMC(which uses mplayer) all play the files
properly
because they don't apply an artificial aspect ratio like the
Internal player
MPlayer IS the internal player, isn't it? I have to say, though,
judging by what you said about the aspect ratio being set to 2.35 on
that file, the aspect ratio is set in the file, and is wrong. Your
aspect ratio should read 1.78 if it is true 16:9.
is doing. Now, I'm not faulting the internal player for this, for
what its
been designed to do, playback TV recordings, forcing a 4:3 or 16:9
aspect
ratio more than makes sense. But why not use it for other media
sources as
well.
Are you using the "playback recordings" option, or are you using
another option? Because doesn't Myth have a special option for
playing back video files from sources other than internally created
videos? I'm pretty sure that if you were using that option, Myth
wouldn't enforce the aspect ratio settings like that.
However, I think I see the problem. This came up with before on the
MPlayer mailing list. Try to find your media playback options. Look
for any 16:9 options for the aspect ratio, and change it to -
monitoraspect instead, that might fix the problem.
It makes all of MythTV look unified and I rather like the controls it
gives me.
Anyway, I'm going to assume it can't do 1:1 pixel ratio playback
yet and
continue using XBMC for the time being.
--
Steve
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