[mythtvnz] Per video aspect ratio?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:22 AM,  <banksie at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 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.

Yes my panasonic has that mode, it stretches more at the edges than in
the middle, so the effect is not so obvious. I haven't used it much.

However in that case you would still want myth to present the picture
in 4:3 and let the TV do the smart stretching.

Frankly I prefer to watch as the author/broadcaster intended, and not
stretch at all.

Anyway, if the OP wants to change the presented aspect ratio on his
videos, mpeg4modifier will do the trick.