DAR 16:9 Sometimes pads when video is already 16:9

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It works for me on my Bravia. Maybe you can join betatesters group (PM me) and then try it out when the next beta is out?

[Illico]

It works for me on my Bravia. Maybe you can join betatesters group (PM me) and then try it out when the next beta is out?

I also check the last : -vf pad=714:402:0:18:black,setdar=4/3,setsar=32/27, on my Bravia 2010 model.

And it seems better than the official serviio option (-vf pad=714:402:0:18:black,setdar=4/3),I still have arround 16 pixel loss on both left&right side, but its OK for me.

[JezzaT]

I also check the last : -vf pad=714:402:0:18:black,setdar=4/3,setsar=32/27, on my Bravia 2010 model.

And it seems better than the official serviio option (-vf pad=714:402:0:18:black,setdar=4/3),I still have around 16 pixel loss on both left&right side, but its OK for me.

I seem to get pixel loss left and right on every version I've tried even the orig x264 - but it seems more like 30 pixels a side.

Doing "pad=714:474:0:54:black,setdar=4/3" seems to get the closest for me to the original on the Viera (I cant tell the difference) and looks OK on the Bravia too.
I got those numbers by playing around with http://avanti.arrozcru.org, picked 720*480 as the next biggest Standard Frame SIze,
took 8 pixels off each dimension and padded the height difference 474-366=108.

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Ok, you might be right. let me put some calculations down:

714 / 402 = 1.77 (16/9) .. that was the original behaviour

anamorphic (32/27) pixels were causing the effect you were seeing. Therefore I added the sar 32:27, to tell the output file to use anamorphic pixels too. But if the Tv then applies the sar on the result, the resulting dar is:

(714 / 402) * (32/27) = 2.1 (not 16/9)

So maybe we have to change the size so that it is 16/9 after applying the sar, so:

(714 / 476) * (32/27) = 1.77 (16/9)

That is close to what you suggest.

So will this work?

  Code:

pad=714:476:0:55:black,setdar=4/3,setsar=32/27

[JezzaT]

  Code:

pad=714:476:0:55:black,setdar=4/3,setsar=32/27

Yeah that looks good - the same as what I tried AFAICT.
I realized why I was loosing some many pixels left and right on the Bravia - I had Screen->Display Area set to -1, putting it back to normal gave me more pixels but not the full amount.

Touchstone pictures banner from start of 13th Warrior. White line shows the where the Bravia crops it off - about 30 something pixels. Happens in both orig and transcoded. Edge of the circle is 48 Pixels from edge in the snapshot

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Ok, so just to close this, Serviio will now use this command for this video:

  Code:

pad=714:476:0:55:black,setdar=4:3,setsar=32:27

Could you run it again manually and confirm it looks ok?

[JezzaT]

Ok, so just to close this, Serviio will now use this command for this video:

  Code:

pad=714:476:0:55:black,setdar=4:3,setsar=32:27

Could you run it again manually and confirm it looks ok?

Yep - all good

[JezzaT]

It works for me on my Bravia. Maybe you can join betatesters group (PM me) and then try it out when the next beta is out?

Yep, looks good running the 1.3 Beta

[zip]

Great, thanks.