Change Aspect Ratio

Hi.

Does anyone know how to change aspect ratio on sony BDV-E490? Some of the older programme files, play in 4:3 but I want to play everything as 16:9? Any help would be great as im struggling to get this to happen!

Cheers
Jazz.

[slyguy42o]

you can edit the profile to specify the apect ratio if you want to force it.

Hi mate,

Thanks for your reply, how do I go about doing that? I've tried inserting DAR=16:9 in nearly every transcoding line but if im honest im just randomly sticking it where I think it should go without any idea what im doing, lol.

If you could help would be great. Im using the "Sony BDP-Sx90 (2012)" profile as my unit is a BDV-E490 so i thought that would be the best match for it.

Cheers

[slyguy42o]

Go ahead and post your profile section including your edits and we will double check it for you.

Go ahead and post your profile section including your edits and we will double check it for you.

I had to do a fresh install cos for some reason Serviio wouldnt start so profile has gone back to standard.

<Profile id="bdp2012" name="Sony BDP-Sx90 (2012)" extendsProfileId="1">
<!-- For this BDP profile MKVs with multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitles are natively supported AVIs with DivX FourCC are transcoded,
no XSub subtitle support -->
<DeviceDescription>
<!-- act as WMP so that the TV doesn't show root categories -->
<ModelName>Windows Media Player Sharing</ModelName>
<ModelNumber>3.0</ModelNumber>
<Manufacturer>Microsoft Corporation</Manufacturer>
</DeviceDescription>
<ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.SonyDLNAMessageBuilder</ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>
<ContentDirectoryDefinitionFilter>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.definition.WMPContentDirectoryDefinitionFilter</ContentDirectoryDefinitionFilter>
<MediaFormatProfiles>
<!-- rename native WMA formats to those supported by the tv -->
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="audio/x-ms-wma" name="WMABASE">WMA_BASE</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="audio/x-ms-wma" name="WMAFULL">WMA_FULL</MediaFormatProfile>
<!-- rename 3gp profiles that can be played as AVC -->
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mp4" name="AVC_MP4_MP_SD_AAC_MULT5">AVC_3GPP_BL_QCIF15_AAC</MediaFormatProfile>
</MediaFormatProfiles>
<H264LevelCheck>FILE_ATTRIBUTES</H264LevelCheck>
<Transcoding>
<!-- For dvr-ms files force mpeg2video transcoding to fix monotone timestamps problems -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" forceVTranscoding="true" forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="asf" vCodec="mpeg2video" />
<Matches container="asf" vCodec="mpeg1video" />
</Video>
<!-- h264 videos with high/main profile level > 4.1 will be transcoded to mpegts with mpeg2video and ac3 audio -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="320" forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
<Matches container="matroska" vCodec="vp8" />
</Video>
<Video targetContainer="mpegts">
<Matches container="flv" vCodec="h264" />
</Video>
<!-- unsupported codecs will be transcoded to mpegts with mpeg2video and ac3 audio -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="320" forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="asf" vCodec="vc1" aCodec="wmapro" />
<Matches container="flv" />
<Matches container="wtv" />
<Matches container="ogg" />
<Matches container="rm" />
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="dvvideo" />
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="dvvideo" />
<!-- digital camera video formats -->
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="mjpeg" />
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mjpeg" />
</Video>
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="320">
<!-- DivX -->
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="mpeg4" vFourCC="div3,div4,div5,divx,dm4v,dx50" />
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="msmpeg4" vFourCC="div3,div4,div5,divx,dm4v,dx50" />
</Video>
<Audio targetContainer="lpcm" forceInheritance="true">
<!-- To allow "pause" then "resume" functions and album art for TVs that support it - transcode to mp3 instead -->
<Matches container="ogg" />
<Matches container="flac" />
</Audio>
<Image forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="jpeg" subsampling="YUV444" />
</Image>
</Transcoding>
<OnlineTranscoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpegts"> <!-- do not transcode to ac3 -->
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="flv" vCodec="h264" />
<Matches container="applehttp" vCodec="h264" />
</Video>
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="320" forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="asf" /> <!-- to support mms:// streams -->
<Matches container="flv" />
</Video>
</OnlineTranscoding>
<HardSubsTranscoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" maxVBitrate="17000" aBitrate="320" />
</HardSubsTranscoding>
<LimitImageResolution>false</LimitImageResolution>
</Profile>

Any ideas where to force aspect ratio within this profile? Its for .avi files.

Cheers
Jazz.