On Wednesday 04 May 2005 22:47, Philip Lawatsch wrote: > Reinhard Nissl wrote: > > So adding "-r '4:3'" when running xine should do the trick. > > Yea, this seems to work, but not quite as expected though. For something > currently running on 3sat it works as expected but when I replay some of > my recordings i still have black bars. > > Could it be that some stations (pro 7, "Blade II") simply send 16:9 > video encoded with black bars into a 4:3 format? I've just been replaying a recording which should have been 16:9 but was squashed horizontally to give a "4:3 within a 16:9 frame" type of thing, looking like some of the older stuff that the BBC broadcasts but this time the aspect ratio is wrong! I think the BBC broadcast everything as 16:9 but use AFD headers, or something, for programmes that should be 4:3. On my old system with a dxr3, I get a black box all of the way round (I think there are patches for the dxr3 to expand it back up but they only work for NTSC). Would it be worth having an aspect ratio config option for the xine plugin to force it one way or the other, if it gets it wrong? This is on DVB-T in the UK. Cheers, Laz
