Export pixel aspect ratio patch
edam <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.dvdrip.user |
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| 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. -- www.waxworlds.org/edam