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I'm using vdr-xine, but as I have 2x DVB-C cards also there's only about 5 channels which I receive via the PVR-500. I could change the aspect in xine, but it would change it for ALL channels wouldn't it?
For DVB, http://xine-lib.alioth.debian.org/patches-1.1/AFD_support.patch may help. Otherwise, you're into auto-crop territory; the "expand" video output plugin will help.
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