From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34002 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751484AbZFCKDh (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:03:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4A264A78.5060602@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:03:36 +0200 From: "Soeren D. Schulze" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BOUWSMA Barry CC: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Aspect ratio change does not take effect (DVB-S) References: <4A259071.3070500@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: BOUWSMA Barry schrieb: > Moin Sören, > > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Soeren D. Schulze wrote: > >> right now, but there seems to be a little bug: When watching the TV >> stream using and szap and mplayer, changes in the aspect ratio of the TV >> program do not take effect until mplayer is restarted. This used to >> work with the former device! > > This should be an issue with `mplayer' -- the aspect ratio is > simply part of the datastream sent as an MPEG transport stream > as encoded by the broadcaster. > > `mplayer' is known to have this issue with the option `-vc mpeg12' > while in recent mplayer, the default is `-vc ffmpeg12' where this > aspect ratio switching works properly. Try adding that latter > option and see if it works as expected. Gotcha. It works. Thanks again. Sören