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gazzer82 · 2016-07-04, 09:54

Howdy all, sorry to ignite something apparently so sensitive!

I have temporarily worked around this as mention by force the display of 4x3 content to 16x9, but it is less than ideal as there is content that is broadcast in 4x3 that is now in the incorrect aspect ratio, i also have some old video files that are in 4x3 and those are also forced to 16x9.

So, anything i can do to assist in debugging this, please do let me know. I'm relatively happy in the world of the command line.

Cheers

Gareth

giaur · (This post was last modified: 2016-07-04, 09:59 by giaur.)

Yes this is why it's annoying. You can force 16:9 and click 'apply to all videos' but you will get 16:9 for all local files also and it sucks, because not all of them are 16:9. Especially, many recent movies ripped from bluray are not 16:9

azbest · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-01, 00:45 by azbest.)

Setting to 16:9 is a workaround in some cases, but not a solution. Using the wrong words causes confusions Smile

I had similar problems lots of months ago with OpenElec on Raspberry Pi. They fix that a while ago. Now I have this issue on s905 device. When I turned off the hardware acceleration it was OK, the live stream had the right aspect ratio. If your device has powerful CPU you can use software decoder at least for SD streams.

What can this mean? I think the HW decoder can cause the problem, because maybe it doesn't forwards the aspect ratio information to Kodi.
When you use Kodi on Android, I think it uses the devices HW decoder implementation. If the HW decoder lib has bugs, then Kodi also behaves buggy.

One possible workaround that seems working for me:
Turn off tvheadend client, because I think it can only use HTSP streaming container currently, and in you case it has problems. Using different container may affect the handling of aspect ratio.
Install PVR Simple IPTV Client.
Set it up to "http://tvheadend-ip-address:9981/playlist" . This address provides an m3u file that has the list of channels.
Why can this work? Because it uses different container. I think it is TS pass through by default, but also can be changed with some magic in the URL. You can find more info in tvheadend documentation about possible parameters in URL.

Maybe the EPG can be set up to use tvheadend, but I did not try that yet.

Update: ah, using HTTP stream also not solve the problem. The playback will stay on that aspect ration that was right while the stream started, but it won't follow the changes in the stream.

**fritsch** · 2016-08-31, 21:11

Just don't use tvheadend. Their demuxer is inferior and such issues will happen again and again. They shall not send out images before they know themselves about the data.

giaur · (This post was last modified: 2016-08-31, 23:19 by giaur.)

Well, if you say "don't use tvheadend", please show some alternative. For openelec or debian/raspberry pi. Btw, about containers, there was a setting to change from ts to mkv, is it gone? I can't find it anymore

@azbest - what about epg? I will get channel streams only. Must say, solution like this is ridiculous.

**fritsch** · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-01, 07:05 by fritsch.)

Alternative with proper demuxer: vdr and vnsi

**nickr** · 2016-09-01, 07:36

Or mythtv.

giaur · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-01, 07:45 by giaur.)

I don't think I can setup vdr server on Openelec. I have tried it on Linux some time ago though, without success. Mythtv is a crap too actually. Tvheadend is meant to be still supported and developed, what's the problem, why nobody cares that bug?

**nickr** · 2016-09-01, 07:44

It certainly works on libreelec according to the forum users.

**fritsch** · 2016-09-01, 07:50

(2016-09-01, 07:43)giaur Wrote: I don't think I can setup vdr server on Openelec. I have tried it on Linux some time ago though, without success. Mythtv is a crap too actually. Tvheadend is meant to be still supported and developed, what's the problem, why nobody cares that bug?

You use it, you fix it. Oss means giving back.

giaur · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-01, 08:10 by giaur.)

Don't get me wrong, this bug looks serious, so I wonder nobody from devs wants to look at it. Tvheadend is actually the best soultion, much more easy to setup and manage

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2016-09-01, 08:13

As anyone tried just asking the Tvheadend developers about it?

giaur · 2016-09-01, 09:09

You mean this forum or tvheadend forum?

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2016-09-01, 09:14

either?

**fritsch** · 2016-09-01, 09:42

(2016-09-01, 08:13)Ned Scott Wrote: As anyone tried just asking the Tvheadend developers about it?

The first time 3 years ago :-). It is widely known (we opened a defect on their github some months ago) and it is getting better, but there is not yet any stable release that has this issue fixed.