On Sunday 08 January 2006 16:46, Kichigai Mentat wrote: > 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
nevermind, problem solved, Off and Fill are not options for Change Aspect Ratio in the menu, and since I never bothered learning a specific button for them to my remote had no ability to switch to them. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
