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I am facing an issue when trying to play some video content recorded with a Hauppauge HD-PVR box. When trying to playback the content, the resulting image has the wrong aspect ratio (sorry for the large size) In order to try to resolve this, I configured folder sync and marked these shows to sync with the high profile. No joy. So in order to provide an example here, I cut out 1 minute of the video and played it to ensure that the problem was still there. I used ffmpeg for the task, with an option like this ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:00 -i [input.mp3|.mp4|...] [ouput.mp3|.mp4|...]Well, there was no issue playing the file... so I wonder what sort of magic ffmpeg had done and looked at the content with MediaInfo This is the original file General Complete name : \\media\Users\Public\Videos\HDPVR\mymovie.MP4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : 3GPP Media Release 4 Codec ID : 3gp4 (3gp4/isom) File size : 6.51 GiB Duration : 2 h 49 min Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 5 484 kb/s Encoded date : UTC 2015-10-02 06:19:58 Tagged date : UTC 2015-10-02 06:19:58 Xtra : WM/MediaClassPrimaryID Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Main@L4 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames Format settings, GOP : M=4, N=32 Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 2 h 49 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 5 306 kb/s Maximum bit rate : 20.0 Mb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Variable Frame rate : 29.970 (29970/1000) FPS Minimum frame rate : 0.979 FPS Maximum frame rate : 29.973 FPS Original frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan type, store method : Separated fields Scan order : Top Field First Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.085 Stream size : 6.30 GiB (97%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2015-10-02 06:19:58 Tagged date : UTC 2015-10-02 06:19:58 Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 2 h 49 min Source duration : 2 h 49 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 170 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 206 MiB (3%) Source stream size : 206 MiB (3%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2015-10-02 06:20:04 Tagged date : UTC 2015-10-02 06:20:04And this is the "cutout" file General Complete name : \\media\Users\Public\Videos\HDPVR\short_example.mp4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/mp41) File size : 65.0 MiB Duration : 2 min 0 s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 4 525 kb/s Encoded date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Writing application : Lavf52.104.0 Video ID : 1 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Simple@L1 Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : 20 Duration : 2 min 0 s Bit rate : 4 478 kb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.072 Stream size : 64.1 MiB (99%) Writing library : Lavc52.117.0 Language : English Encoded date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 2 min 0 s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 61.0 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 897 KiB (1%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00With the fast approaching holidays, it would be nice to get a resolution so I could do some binge watching. I have pasted parts of the log here when starting the stream. It's for a different file, but the pattern is exactly the same http://pastebin.com/zR5QKRZA Can anyone help with this?