[Digikam-users] Wrong aspect ratio for videos

[Andreas Mair]

Hello Gilles,

thanks for your answer.
I'm quite surprised that it's because of exiv2, I never thought of
searching in that direction.

Seems I have to wait until exiv2 v0.24 hits Gentoo's portage.

Best regards,
Andreas


2014-05-10 9:46 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> Ratio is probably information taken from Exif or Xmp metadata with Exiv2.
>
> Or Ratio is computed through width and height of frames also taken
> through Exiv2.
>
> So the first step to check is information given by Exiv2 CLI tool on
> your video files. If info is wrong, report this problem to Exiv2
> project.
>
> Video metadata support is young feature in Exiv2.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
>
> 2014-05-10 8:49 GMT+02:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I try to play video files in digiKam 3.5 but the height of 16:9
>> recordings will stretch to 4:3.
>> For video playback I use the gstreamer backend for phonon.
>> If I play the videos using mplayer aspect ratio is fine.
>>
>> What can I do to fix that?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
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