Export pixel aspect ratio patch

edam <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.dvdrip.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi there,

I'm fairly new to the linux desktop (although I've been using linux on 
servers for years). I recently came across dvdrip while trying to copy a 
friends DVD (legally, I should add). But I quickly came across an issue.

The DVD I was trying to transcode is 720 x 576 which would give you an 
aspect ratio of 5:4 if the pixels are square. All the media players seem 
to magically know, though, to display the DVD at 16:9. Maybe this is a 
DVD standard or something? When transcoding it with dvdrip though, the 
resultant video image (with no zooming/cliping) is always displayed at 5:4.

After some digging I discovered the option to specify an export pixel 
aspect ratio to transcode via the "--export_par" option and I noticed 
that adding an interface to specifying it from dvdrip is on Jörn's to-do 
list. Being interested in GTK+ programming, I decided to go ahead and 
implement this in dvdrip myself, just for the fun of it really. I 
wondered if you might be interested in the patch? Shall I post it with 
some more info?

All the best, and thanks for dvdrip - it's a fantastic bit of software!

Tim.

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