2021-12-04, 11:27
I have an interesting aspect ratio problem when streaming stuff from a Dreambox type (in my case, VU+ Ultimo) cable TV receiver (on Helsinki DNA Welho cable network). Most of the video channels I have on my tuner are these days of course HD and 16:9 aspect ratio, and they come through correctly. However, for some (but not quite all) of the channels that are sent in SD 720×576 resolution (like YLE TV1, Nelonen, Paramount Network, BBC World News), the latest OSMC 2021.11-2 decides they have a 4:3 aspect ratio and shows them compressed and pillarboxed (black bars on both sides). The previous release occasionally did this (you could get it right by restarting streaming a couple of times), this current release is permanently in 4:3 for these. What has changed?