[Mplayer-dvb] aspect ratio changes for dvb

[Nico]

Hi,

I'm not sure, but I can hardly believe it's a driver of firmware 
problem, as all the rest of the transmission (video/audio) would be 
affected too, so Harf would see some distortion.

I tend to believe that ads tend to be 4/3 and that normal transmissions 
are in 16/9 AR.

Harf, have you tried to fix the dimensions such as
mplayer -x 768 -y 576  dvb://UK4 ?

I'm not sure it will work, but at least it's worth a try.

Nico

André Weidemann wrote:

> Hello Harf,
> the issue you describe does not sound like an Mplayer problem but more 
> like a driver or firmware problem.
> Have you tried upgrading to the latest DVB-Driver from:
> http://www.linuxtv.org/news/holger/dvbrelease3.xml
> You can also try to check out the latest CVS
> http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
>
> Good luck,
>  André.
>
> Harf Zatschler wrote:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>> I'm successfully viewing digital TV using Nico's (not yet applied) 
>> patch. The issue I found is probably not related to this, so I'm 
>> posting this here:
>>
>> There's one station (UK channel 4) that sometimes changes aspect 
>> ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 -- and possibly also the bitrate, I haven't 
>> looked -- when changing over to ads. This causes mplayer to continue 
>> playing the sound, but the picture is black. Re-tuning to the current 
>> channel fixes the picture until the next change.
>> Is there any way this could be automated?
>>
>> Regards
>> Harf
>>
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