Re: DVD recorder playback is 'tall and skinny' like me!

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:02, H}kan Hjort wrote:

> > > Commercial DVD's play okay as intended. It's just the one's from the DVD
> > > recorder that misbehave. Perhaps I need to buy some special
> > > anti-anamorphic glasses to squish it back :)
> > >  
> > Ok that's a bit strange.  Could you send a copy of the IFO files from the
> > DVD and the output of running ogle --debug  (i.e. ogle --debug &>ogle.log
> > and send ogle.log).
> > 
> > Either the IFO files are bad or Ogle is read/interpreting something in them
> > the wrong way.
> > 
> Ok, looking at the IFO files it specifies that the video should be
> 'mpeg2 PAL 4:3 720x576 video' however the actual stream is
> Debug[ogle_mpeg_vs]: horizontal_size: 352, vertical_size: 576
> Debug[ogle_mpeg_vs]: padded_width: 352, padded_height: 576
> Debug[ogle_mpeg_vs]: frame rate: 25
> i.e. PAL 352x576 so...
>  
> I can see how this get it wrong in that the image is half it's intended
> width.  I don't see how we should be able to figure out that it's 16:9,
> if it really is...  I think the IFO file is wrong though.. but we should
> be able to handle this case also....
> 
> A temporary hack to view these (but the menu will look wrong instead) might be
> to use a oglerc with
> 
> 	<geometry>
>           <width>400</width>
>           <height>300</height>
> 	</geometry>
> 	<resolution>
>           <horizontal_pixels>800</horizontal_pixels>
>           <vertical_pixels>300</vertical_pixels>
> 	</resolution>
> 	<geometry_src>user</geometry_src>
> 	<resolution_src>user</resolution_src>
> 
> i.e. make it think that there are twice as many horizontal pixels... 
> 
> /Håkan 

I've tried these settings but without success. It's almost as if Ogle
runs without referring to the .oglerc file. I've even tried various
combinations without the $HOME/.oglerc and changed the shared oglerc
file.

I've added two screenshots to the web page to show how the menu page and
a selection look. Just to clarify it a bit.

-- 


Dave