Hello Gentlemen, i sent sent following email Petri Hintukainen and then found this mailing list, which looks like it could be a better forum for my questions. Cheers, Raphael. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: xineliboutput and WSS aspect ratio Date: Monday 14 January 2008 09:38 From: Raphael Coeffic <rco@xxxxxxxxx> To: Petri Hintukainen <phintuka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Petri, i'm using at home VDR with your xineliboutput plugin for a few month, which is really a good software in my opinion. The TV card i'm using is a Hauppauge PVR 250 (analog with hardware encoder, no decoder). As the card is able to embed VBI data (Teletext, WSS, etc...), i am wondering if i could use that information to set the correct cropping / aspect ratio. The story begun as i noticed that the autocrop post plugin included with xineliboutput had a pretty hard time detecting letterbox 16:9 format on my host. During 16:9 broadcasts, it does most of the time just nothing. Then, maybe once every 10s, it would enable cropping during 1s and immediatly switch back to 4:3 format. That's why i thought, i could use the Wide Screen Signal (WSS) to detect 16:9 letterbox without using the autodetection feature included in the autocrop plugin (which would save some CPU time, and surely work better at my place). Concerning the VBI data, i will embed them into the MPEG TS, as specified by EN 301 775 (done in "pvrinput" VDR plugin). Then, i could decode those VBI data in xineliboutput. Now, this is where your help would be very usefull for me: i have no idea how to go further from there. Do you have some suggestions, how i could set the correct cropping parameters from within the xine frontend? Thanks Raphael. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Dipl. Inf. Raphael Coeffic iptelorg GmbH Am Borsigturm 11 13507 Berlin Germany rco@xxxxxxxxx www.iptelorg.com T +49-30-3251-3218 F +49-30-6908-8248 _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr