Utility: Batch MKV AR Fixer For STX-HD100

[lobosrul]

This is a batch utility to correct the aspect ratio of multiple anamorphic h.264 mkv files on the STX-HD100 extender easily. This is caused by mkvmerge not keeping the stream's AR info, and the STX-HD100 ignoring the containers value.

While it was already possible to fix them, it took multiple steps with multiple utilities. No problem if you had a handful of mkv's to fix, but a giant PITA if you're like me and have several hundred.

It can be found here: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/down...do=file&id=244

See: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29031 for more details.

Copy of the included readme follows:

A) Purpose
	An automated (batch) process to correct the aspect ratio of anamorphic h.264 streams on certain hardware players (ie SageTV STX HD-100) using tsmuxer, mp4box and mkvmerge.
	All audio and subtitle streams are copied.
B) Installation
	1) Unzip to any folder you like
	2) You must have mkvmerge installed!
C) Usage
	1) Command-line
	 	sarfixer.exe input_file sar_value fps Example: sarfixer.exe "an input file" 40:33 23.976
	OR
	2) From queue
		edit the file "tobefixed.txt" with a different mkv file on each line, there are two examples already there.
		The default FPS is 25
D) Notes
	1) This has only been tested with mkv's but it may work with mp4's and avi's.
	2) On choosing correct SAR values:
		See "SAR VALUES.txt" and choose the correct number based on what type of DVD you encoded. 
		ITU values are genreally correct if there is more than 2 black lines on either side.
		Experiment to see which one looks best.
	3) The final output is placed in the input directory with the "SAR_FIXED" added to the end of the file. The original is not over-written.