Re: [vdr] Showing aspect ratio or providing automatic widescreen switching signals

On Sonntag, 20. März 2005 23:56, Stefan Lucke wrote:

On Sonntag, 20. März 2005 17:31, Mark Watson wrote:

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I just got a widescreen TV and put VDR in 16:9 mode. However there is still a lot of content still in 4:3 mode and it sometimes takes me a while to spot the short/fat people and switch the TV! It would help to see the aspect on the overlay when switching channels.

Are you thinking of something like this (left to the teletext icon) ?

http://www.lucke.in-berlin.de/vdr-aspect-info.png

I modified this a bit, so that stream width and hight is shown too. This additional info is presented in channel and recording display.

http://www.lucke.in-berlin.de/vdr-stream-info.png

vdr patch is made for vdr-1.3.22, but applies to vdr-1.3.27 too (with some offsets).

softdevice patch is for cvs version.