[MEncoder-users] Problem with the aspect of an mpeg-ps film

[TAJTHY Tamás]

Dear List,

I have bought a Sony camera which creates MPEG-PS encoded films. I set
the camera to record films in 16:9.

I downloaded the recorded films to my PC and I tried to encode to avi,
but there was some problems with the aspect. So I tried to investigate
what the problem is. Playing the original mpeg-ps films with mplayer
the aspect is correct (it seems to be 16:9), but playing on my DVD
player the aspect is 4:3 (or 5:4?), so everything seems to be too
thick (compressed horizontally).

I checked what mplayer sees from such an mpeg-ps file (output atteched
to the end of this mail). It is evident that mplayer knows somehow
that this is not a 720x576 film contrary that the resolution is stated
to be 720x576. Mplayer resizes it to 1024x576. I tried to swith on/off
the autoaspect option, use noaspect, use -aspect 16:9 options with no
luck.

Could anybody help me what should I do to see the proper aspect on the
DVD player?

Thanks in advance!

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$ /usr/local/mplayer/mplayer.exe M2U00001.MPG -identify -vo directx
MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r25088-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
SSE supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx
93 audio & 211 video codecs

Playing M2U00001.MPG.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  9100.0 kbps (1137.5 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=M2U00001.MPG
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=9100000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=32.00
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpeg12
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using 3DNowEx optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=256000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12

Exiting... (Quit)
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