Problem maintaining correct auto aspect ratio in PVRX2

[Hairy]

For me PVRX2 has a problem displaying the correct aspect ratio on 16x9 digital recordings. When I first load PVRX2 it shows the correct aspect ratio, but if you play any 4x3 video and then try to play a 16x9 recording, auto aspect ratio fails and displays the video vertically stretched to fill the full screen. I don't have this problem with the GBPVR.exe, it switches from 16x9 to 4x3 automatically, even within video files.

I've reproduced the problem and attached the logs: play 16x9 recording exit - play 4x3 recording exit - play same 16x9 recording.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[seldomshaven]

I'm seeing the same problem here. I have a 4:3 TV connected via VGA at 640x480, using VMR-Custom under PVRX2 and the Auto aspect-ratio selection tends to stretch 16:9 recordings to fill the entire screen.

Flipping through the ratios with F7 is fine, but the same setup worked with GBPVR, so it'd be nice if PVRX2 did, too!

[sub]

Reproduce the problem then zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

[sub]

Hair, I cant see any obvious cause in your logs, but I'll see if anything stands out in seldomshaven's logs.

[scim]

Do you only get the problem with recordings but not with live TV? I have been having this problem ever since switching to PXVR2 but have come up with no solution, again logs don't show any errors.

[sub]

scim, reproduce the problem then zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

Do you only get the problem with recordings but not with live TV?

If you're only having this problem with recordings, then this is often an indication that your video decoder is set to 'system default' in which case the app is unable to automatically manage aspect ratios. You need to explicitly set the decoder rather than rely on 'system default'.

[scim]

Thanks for the quick reply, the logs are attached, the recording is in 16:9 format but as the logs show PVXR2 doesn't seem to be able to tell this and shows them full screen which since I am showing them on a 4:3 screen is not right. This also happens with 4:3 recordings but obviously they look OK.
As I said, strangely live tv, even though it is not in live preview mode (which has always give me progressively worst sync problems), works correctly and will change aspect ratio between shows/adverts correctly, I would have thought that this was no different to playing a recorded file?

I have the Nvidia decoder explicitly selected in config and raw/anamorphic is selected although I have also tried Dscaler and this made no difference.

Thanks for your efforts

[sub]

Can you also post a screenshot?

[seldomshaven]

Hair, I cant see any obvious cause in your logs, but I'll see if anything stands out in seldomshaven's logs.

The logs from PVRX2 & GBPVR playing an episode of CSI are attached.

Both logs seem to have the "source resolution" as 720x480 (3:2), but the GBPVR log then seems to change its mind to 720x576 (11:9, but which it thinks is 4:3). The actual display resolution is 640x480.

[sub]

Can you also post a screenshot so I can see what it looks like?

Both logs seem to have the "source resolution" as 720x480 (3:2), but the GBPVR log then seems to change its mind to 720x576 (11:9, but which it thinks is 4:3).

For future reference, pixels arent square with MPEG. 720x480 and 720x576 would typically be display as either 4:3 or 16:9 depending on special flags in the MPEG file.