[mythtv] Making Squished 4:3 -> 16:9 again for mytharchive DVDs?

[Paul Bailey]

On 3 Oct 2006, at 11:49 pm, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>
> I'd be flat *amazed* if you ended up with a 4:3 scope recording
> off-air, BTW: how did you manage that?
>

I might be wrong, but I think that's how widescreen SD DVB-T is  
transmitted in the UK.  For example, on playing back one of my  
widescreen recordings in MPlayer I see:

Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Planar YV12 to Packed YUY2 using MMX2
VO: [macosx] 720x576 => 1024x576 Packed YUY2
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.

If that is indeed what is happening, it's a *very* common occurence  
on my system, probably 75% of what I record is SD widescreen.