can GBPVR handle 4:3 and 16:9 inputs?

[marcel808]

hi,
I have a widescreen tv using PVR-350 tv out.
I access my sky tv via the PVR-350 tuner. Sky is set to output widescreen signals.
Is there a way to tell GBPVR that the input is widescreen and to display the output in widescreen?
even better, can GBPVR work out that some channels are 4:3 and some are 16:9, and auto swtich, much like my tv does when I feed it from the digibox via a scart.
I'm confused as no one on the forums seems to say anything about widescreen problems, so maybe I just haven't seen a menu somewhere.
But I cant get GBPVR to output in widescreen; it always assumes its a 4:3 tv.
thanks
cel

[reven]

no currently gbpvr only supports 4:3 ratios. but if a 16:9 signal is sent into it, it thinks of it as a 4:3, so if you just put your widescreen tv on 16:9 ratio all is fine, its stretched the right way. just when you record it will be recorded as a 4:3 mpeg file. also menus etc only handle 4:3 ratios.

[reven]

i am sure, most things skins etc are 720x480 (some are 720x576) which are 4:3 ratio. 16:9 isnt available yet, however if you have a widescreen video file (without black bars) it will be stretched to cover the entire screen, so if viewing on a widescreen tv, you dont get the black bars, which is nice.
it maybe able to do the same on widescreen dvds, ive never tried this myself.

[Guest]

thats for all the answers.
a related question; if the tv signal has line 23 widescreen switching (WSS), does this get recorded by GBPVR? There is a box from http://www.amcro.co.uk for £120 which will take pin 9 switching and add it into the tv signal. But I'm unsure if this would work once its passed through GBPVR
thanks
cel

[Guest]

I'll answer my own question then
I played with different signals last night.
seems the output of gbpvr is only designed for a 4:3 tv.
the software does look at line 23 (WSS). If its a widescreen transmission, it puts black bars top and bottom.
but if I feed in widesceen from Sky which only has scart widesceen switching, I get a squashed 4:3 signal in GBPVR.
But GBPVR does not output line 23.

So I guess I should add to the wishlist forum support for 16:9 TVs. Ideally the output should keep line 13 WSS but maybe that can't be done with PV TV-out cards.
cel