16:9 Content on TTCB on DRT800

[eric_mcgovern]

Has anyone had any luck getting 16:9 content transferred from their PC to their DRT800? If I encode a video to 16:9 it is completely out of whack when I transfer the video. If I burn that same file to a DVD in the same resolution, etc. it plays just fine in 16:9 mode. Is there something simple I am missing?

[petew]

Eric, A description of the symptoms would help. And are you trying to view on a widescreen TV?

[gtrogue]

What do you mean by "completely out of whack"?

[megazone]

It is a known issue that 16:9 content doesn't work correctly on 5xx series boxes - which are the TiVo and Humax 'nightlight' boxes, and the Toshiba and Humax DVD units. There have been other discussions about this issue.

[petew]

I have a 4:3 TV so somewhat different but for 640x352 downloads I pad 64 pixels top and bottom and 32 pixels left and right giving a 704x480 image with a letterbox picture that's an exact fit horizontaly into the visible portion of my TV. I use the folloing ffmpeg command line:

"C:\gui4ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -i %1 -hq -target ntsc-dvd -b 6000 -aspect 4:3 -s 640x352 -padbottom 64 -padtop 64 -padleft 32 -padright 32 -acodec ac3 -ab 448 -ac 6 -mbd 2 -qmin 2 -async 1 -y %2

[johnconaway]

Megazone, could you point to some of the other discussions on the 16:9 issue with series 5xx boxes? I've noticed some intermittent problems sometimes, and thought it was the wide picture setting on my TV, not the Tivo, but now maybe I need to go back and research this further.

I have a Humax DRT800 and a Sony 46 wide HDTV, and I feed the Tivo separately through one of the video inputs, so I can switch off to watch High Def programming.

Thanks