[Evaluate] Fix for several aspect ratio issues (1 Viewer)

[flyinj]

This Patch attempts to fix two things:
1) The Problem with MPC decoder filter reporting wrong aspect ratio
2) A potential bug in the handling crop settings by Normal zoom mode

Concerning 1):
The solution was using ar information that is available from internal demuxer using the g_player singleton.
This is being done in the InternalPresenter method where arwidth arheight arguments are replaced by
g_player.getvideostreamformat information


Although one doesnt make good usage of available API using this method, one doesnt rely on other ppls decoder software passing our own data correctly back to ourselfes

Concerning 2):
The previous behavior depended on Pixelratio, which appeared to me as the Pixelratio of the screen Pixels (apparently determined by that nice interface which displays a shloud-be-square on the screen). But it shloud depend of the Aspect ratio of Image Pixels, which it does now...

I made this against Revision 26135

 

[fnokke]

I know this is probably not the right place to post this, but it is the closest thing to a hit I got when I searched the forums. I am having problems when viewing SD-TV recordings through MediaPortal. The picture gets pixel artifacts and seems to have kind of a whitish layer on top (loss in contrast?). Viewing the same recording but through MPC-HC outside MePo is no problem. When I look at the logs (which I have very limited knowledge about since I have not looked at the code), I found this which I thought could be of interest. The reason is that I have a feeling that the scaling/stretching of the SD tv to my 1920x1080 screen res is incorrect. Viewing the same file in windowed MePo (i.e. not maximized) also does not show these artefacts.

2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Debug][(15)]: PlaneScene: crop T, B  : 0, 0
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Debug][(15)]: PlaneScene: crop L, R  : 0, 0
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Info.][(15)]: PlaneScene: video WxH  : 720x576
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Debug][(15)]: PlaneScene: video AR   : 16:9
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Info.][(15)]: PlaneScene: screen WxH : 1920x1000
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Debug][(15)]: PlaneScene: AR type    : Normal
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Debug][(15)]: PlaneScene: PixelRatio : 1
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Debug][(15)]: PlaneScene: src        : (0,0)-(720,576)
2010-11-08 21:18:26.859375 [Debug][(15)]: PlaneScene: dst        : (71,0)-(1849,1000)

Is it related to your patch, or do you have any other ideas on how I could debug this further?

Thx, Fnokke

 

[flyinj]

Aspect ratio looks alright as far as i can tell from your log;

but the resolution from source material annd screen differ a lot,
so artifacts are probably because of that, to be short

well if your screen is a modern tv screen, some of the artifacts might come from
postprocessing done by the screen itself; in that case you should try to turn that off
(good guess is searching for some pc-mode option, or even the screens manual)

and since this isnt related to aspect ratio, this should definitely go someplace else,
but im unsure where, either

 

[fnokke]

Thanks,

I actually noticed today that playback was fine in the TV-Series plugin which caused me to suspect that it was a codec thing after all. Moving from the recommended PDVD9 Codec to ffdshow from SAF 4 solved the problem.