Hi, Laz 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? You might have discovered that my current patches for xine-lib report the AFD value for streams containing that information. The idea is to have an AFD post plugin which crops out the relevant area. And a further plugin might simulate AFD values for streams which don't contain this information by detecting black borders on top/bottom and left/right. A first approach is my patch to xine's expand post plugin. Just give it a try as documented in vdr-xine's MANUAL. The patch crops out 4:3 images, but also puts 16:9 images into a 4:3 frame (default functionality of expand plugin). Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx
