I have dvb-t videos saved in various aspect ratios. I need to make the widescreen ones to 16:9 for dvd authoring compatibilty. Having recorded main episodes at 720x576 or 704x576, i did miss a couple of episodes. Which i got from a +1 (crap) channel, these are at 544x576 resolution aspect ratios. I could re-encode throgh various softwares to make them 16:9, but the results i've seen are of no use. I decided long ago not to go that route, but to go the route i'll describe below.
For doing this the easiest way there is with little or no degrading of the original recording. Which many are long gop structured, didn't help when i tried re-encoding.
Ok here is the simple solution, use a player that enables full control over the screen resolution aspect ratio. Twop i've tried are dvbviewer and media player classic. I can play these 544x576 pal recordings in them and adjust the resolution to suit, without any stretching or other nastiness.
Player is streamed from local lan pc, and vlc is on a remote locale lan pc.
The above players can stream, dvbviewer can mpc can i think but via webserver!!.
The |Crunch| I need to know can vlc capture from another program as is, without just streaming the actual source file itself. I do need the resolution as is playing on the local lan software to be saved, with reslotion changes it is playing.
Next problem i didn't like when last tried vlc, was in its setup for streaming. You know how easy it is to setup windows media player (wmp) for lan streaming. Deselect all but tcp in the settings, apply, choose the the file on other pc and play it. Theres no ports or other rubbish to configure, it sees a gb lan and uses that bandwidth. Last time i tried vlc it wanted port this and that. To be honest i don't ever configure any ports when normaly use lan between pcs. Has vlc evolved well enough as of the current version, to know what the bandwidth is automaticaly and configure itself for quick and easy streaming.
Now to think of a title for this post.
