On Mar 1, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Nicolas Huillard wrote:

>
> I just read the whole thread, and it appears you have the same problem
> than me :
> * broadcasters in your country send bogus aspect ratio information, or
> simply do not bother with 16:9 TVs
> * you actually have a 16:9 screen
> * Stefan and other core developers have quality programs with correct
> AFD, 16:9-aware broadcasters et al.
>

I think you're spot on. Real 16:9 broadcasts are slowly becoming  
reality on the three public nets we have in the Netherlands. The  
commercial channels like RTL 4 and such do not broadcast in 16:9 at  
all. Most of their content is 4:3, but some of that (mostly series)  
is 16:9 content, scaled or cropped to 4:3 adding black bars.

> Maybe the solution is to toggle SoftDevice's cropmode behaviour from
> "reduce image to fit on the screen, adding black bars" to "expand the
> image, without bothering with lost parts of the image, which happen to
> be black bars".

Thats what I meant with zooming the picture , in stead of cropping.  
If soft device could zoom the picture up to the point that the added  
black bars are gone, I'd be happy.

As a reference, this link describes the mythtv zooming: http:// 
www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Aspect_ratio

I'll try to record some "evidence" later this night.

Hugo


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