Playback of mpg multi-aspect ratio file bugs display

[galmok]

I have recorded a show (in mpg) that starts in 4:3, switches to 16:9 during commercials and then back to 4:3.

 

Now, what I see is this:

 

DVBViewer starts in 4:3 without black borders. No problem.

Commercials show (16:9) and DVBViewer scales the image to fit in the display (puts black borders on top and bottom of the image). No problem.

I resize the window by selecting 100% zoom. DVBViewer rescales the window to be 16:9 and the image fits snugly inside. Still no problem.

Then the show continues (in 4:3) and now DVBViewer scales the image to 4:3 and thereby adding black bars to the left and right of the image. Reasonably enough. DVBViewer reports the image to be 4:3

Then I again resize the window by selecting 100% zoom to get rid of the black bars but this part fails. DVBViewer keeps the black bars on the left and right side. I cannot make the bars go away again.

 

I expected the bars to disappear and the window to shrink to fit. I just can't make the window shrink regardless of what I do.

[hdv]

Hello,

 

have you set in Settings -> Aspect Ration -> "Auto" + "Autosize" ?

 

With a testfile 4:3 -> 16:9 -> 4:3 etc. play without problems, and the window is always without black bars.

 

[galmok]

Hmm yes, I found the option and as you suspected, it was disabled. But I still dont understand why (with auto resize off) a 4:3 display starts out without black bars and later ends up with black bars without having changed any options in-between. But ok, it seems autoresize does what I want and therefore no code change is necessary (was just very confused). :-P