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Hi. I'm wondering what kind of pixel ratio we should adjust to make this correct format correct when viewing. I have put the pixel ratio to 0,94, because that is the same I use when viewing 1280x720. Standard 16:9.
Any suggestions?
PS! I think they call this format cinemacsope, but not sure.
althekiller
2009-06-19, 23:18
What are you trying to achieve here? What is "incorrect"? Are you just trying to eliminate black bars or were the source pixels non-square? We can't see the image or read your mind.
Ok, this is what I mean with correct pixel ratio:
http://i36.tinypic.com/hsqsno.jpg
If this movie was presented in incorrect aspect ratio you would see warner bros symbol pushed together.
So I would definitely not have it to fill the hole screen, I want it to be the way the movie was produced. How it was meant to be seen.
jmarshall
2009-06-20, 02:16
The only time you need to alter the pixel aspect ratio is in the case where your screen has non-square pixels.
It has nothing to do with the pixel aspect ratio that the source video may have - XBMC corrects for that automatically when scaling the image to the output resolution.
Assuming your screen has a 1:1 PAR, which most do nowadays (other than some of the early "HD-ready" plasmas, and most of those are just sent 1:1 PAR resolutions such as 720p/1080i/p anyway), then you should not have to alter the PAR within XBMC at all. The only case that you might need to change it is if you have a badly encoded source file.
Cheers,
Jonathan