[mythtvnz] Per video aspect ratio?

[banksie at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz>:

> On 05/05/12 11:07, Nick Rout wrote:
> > Actually having re-read your question, why would you want to stretch
> > to 16:9 when the correct aspect ratio for the video is 4:3? Everything
> > will be stretched and look fat.
> 
> That's what I was wondering. If it's 4:3 it's displaying correctly if it
> has black bars on the sides.

   If he has a TV that has some funky stretching modes on it, then it could make
perfect sense to force 4:3 content to go full screen. My panasonic 16:9 has a
stretch mode that does this and tries to 'intelligently' display a 4:3 image
over the whole screen.

   Philip