MVP and Divx aspect ratio

[superporky]

I am trying to get my MVP's to play divx movies without cropping. Retaining 16x9 with black bars. I have a 4x3 CRT. The quote below seems to have the answere but I havn't had any luck. Am I missing something? I have added the lines below (while the Sage service has been stopped) but no love.

Originally Posted by MH2006

I got this to work on avi's transcoded to MVP (NTSC).

I added this profile to the server properties:

media_server/transcode_quality/avi16x9=-f dvd -b 3000 -aspect 4\:3 -padtop 60 -padbottom 60 -s 720x360 -acodec mp2 -ab 128s
and changed the client properties setting to:

miniclient/transcode_mode=avi16x9

The result is any avi regardless of original resolution or aspect ratio is displayed in 16x9 without cropping, with black bars. Since my video library mostly consists of 16x9 and 7x3 widescreens its an overall improvement for me. Hopefully we'll soon see user selectable A/R's in the user interface.

I also lowered the bitrate from 4000 to 3000 and didn't notice any quality degradation (on a cheap crt mind you), however it did lower the average cpu usage on the server by about 10% per transcoding instance.

[superporky]

I guess I'll try Sage support....

[JParedis]

Maybe have a look at this post

Mixed hit rate ...

Jan