[mythtvnz] HVR-4000, LIRC and channel changing time

[Nick Rout]

On Dec 6, 2007 4:22 PM, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Thu, December 6, 2007 3:58 pm, Graeme Woollett wrote:
> > Steven Ellis wrote:
> >> Graeme - What in particular were you after with regards to aspect ratio?
> >>
> >> Personally I'd like to override aspect ratio on a per program basis.
> >> Hence
> >> when I record a program that I know will be pillarboxed I can show it
> >> zoomed on my 4:3 TV to avoid the black bars left/right.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> > The aspect ratios that programs show up on the screen with vary
> > depending on the Freeview channel recorded, wide screen is tolerable,
> > it's when the picture has a 4:3 ratio but takes up only 60% of the
> > screen or is pillar boxed that's most annoying.
> > It would be nice to be able to tell myth what sort of  TV aspect ratio
> > you have and have a set of rules of what to do with the picture so it
> > fits best.
> > It should be possible for mythtv to work out which aspect ratio it is
> > being given...
> >
>
> This is a broadcast issue rather than a MythTV issue.
>
> TV1/2/3/C4 are all broadcasting in widescreen 16:9 which means on a 4:3 TV
> you get black bars top and bottom.
>
> Some older 4:3 programs are broadcast pillarbox within the 16:9 frame.
> Hence as far as MythTV is concerned it is getting a 16:9 image.

Those are the really annoying ones. Shouldn't they be broadcasting a
flag that the TV/Myth can interpret when they switch from a 16:9 to
4;3 programme?