Re: mplayer and dvb aspect ratio

Ermanno wrote:

>I am a user of vdr a nice program to turn the pc into a video-recorder,
>it creates .vdr files from a dvb card (probably simply saves to a file
>what the card generates), to trasform this files to avi I use the vdrrip
>plugin which in turn uses mplayer to do the job. The problem is that the
>latest versions of mplayer always returns ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000 for the
>files generated by vdr and the plugin relies on this value to compute
>the correct resize values. Most channels are 4:3 so a with quick&dirty
>patch to the plugin I fixed the aspect ratio to 1.33333 but it would be
>nice if mplayer could again detect the correct aspect ratio. tcprobe (to
>quote a competing product :-) correctly detects the aspect ratio of the
>files (see #2). In the file used by me the resolution is 544x576 but the
>aspect ratio is 4:3 and so the real resolution is 720x576 as detected by
>tcprobe.
>
>#1:
>  
>

it is detected, just not printed