Aspect Ratios and Recording formats and mega disincentive to use Media Portal TV (1 Viewer)

[warpgaza]

This is a make or break issue with me as I to wether or not I will bother to use Media Portal for TV.

I am very frustrated that the recordings and the picture do not match the transmitted TV. I have a 16:9 TV as I am sure that most of you do

Why on earth is Normal, Original etc aspect ratios all 4:3 on a 16:9 Digtial Transmission played on a 16:9 Screen and why don't you have a 16:9 apsect ratio availabe 14:9 is thrown in just to confuse the issue even more

Oh sure you have stretch which maps to 16:9 but the recorded file is still 4:3 format and players like Media Player to not stretch the play back so I am stuck with stick figures for play back with other software.

Another thing that annoys me is that you use .dvr-ms! why not offer .mpg ala the lovely Divico Fusion HD TV player that works in 16:9 and and records in 16:9.

 

[Nightmare77]

i presume you are not using tv engine 3? as you can select mpeg or ts with the new tv engine, also the aspect ratio directly relates to the codecs if i select normal with nvidia codec it works fine if i switch back to mpv for some reason normal is then in 4x3 and i have to change the aspect ratio to pan and scan or something similar to get a widescreen image, so out of curiousity what codec and verson of MP you using?

 

[fab70]

I'm not an expert (still trying to understand how TV server works in term of stream quality) but you can always enable the ffshow filters in post-processing in the host pc.. very powerfoul!!

 

[warpgaza]

I am using the latest release candiate and had being using the default codec on aDivico Digital 4 card codec (MPV).

Thanks for pointing out the different codecs.

The Divico codecs cause Media Portal to lock up but the descaler mgeg2 decoder runs 16:9 in normal/original view - but is painfully slow to change channels. I had assumed that media portal would cater for 16:9 no matter what codec is selected.

I am in the process of downloading and setting up tv engine 3 - again i had assumed that it was built into the release candidate.

Thanks for your advice and thanks for availability of the new tv engine 3 set up videos which I am about to watch.