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On my HDR 1000S I can stream from my Mac (running Serviio as a DNLA server) video. However, sometimes the aspect ratio is not preserved correctly.
For example, I have a video with input of 640 x 272 (2.35:1), which gets stretched vertically. The aspect ratio settings on the Humax box don’t seem to affect how it renders the video.
There was a previous post including this issue (http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/new-hdr-1000s-user#post-11711) and some similar descriptions of problems on the FOX Humax boxes, but no solutions that I’ve found.
Is it possible to get the Humax to render these correctly? If not, can I modify the video file somehow (perhaps adding black bars at the top and bottom) to get the aspect ratio shown correctly?
Modifying the file in a video editing package to create a 16:9 background black file should be fairly easy. If you can post a link to a clip I can have a go to see if it works.
Quote:Is it possible to get the Humax to render these correctly?No, the Humax displays all media incorrectly unless the file is exactly 16:9.
I e-mailed Humax detailing this problem 2 months ago & as of yet have still not had a reply.
The main reason I upgraded from the Foxsat to a 1000S (in reality it was a ‘downgrade’) was so I could use the DLNA feature, but this aspect ratio problem makes the movies unwatchable (for me) most of the time.
Yes, all Humax owners who use the DLNA feature could re-encode all their movies to 16:9 so they display properly, OR, someone at Humax could fix the problem in 30 minutes & save all their customers a lot of time & effort. Perhaps bob_dvb could let us know what’s happening with this???
Humax really need to fix this problem!
They have gone through the effort of implementing a full blown media player but have screwed up implementing a *basic* capability, e.g. correct handling of aspect ratios.
Even a simple, manual, aspect ratio override option would be ok, assuming they don’t have the resources and time to implement and validate auto-detection of content aspect ratios.
Humax have an excellent opportunity to push this capability, as combining a media player into a PVR is a fantastic capability to have, and is unique relative to sky plus others.
So Humax, if you are reading this, please fix this..
.. and whilst you are at it, please pass through DTS audio via HDMI.
I have the same problem with my HDR-1000S.
I’m assuming that if enough people raise this as an issue, maybe it will get fixed
ariharry – 3 days ago »
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Humax have an excellent opportunity to push this capability, as combining a media player into a PVR is a fantastic capability to have, and is unique relative to sky plus others.
The HDR-1000S is a DLNA client rather than a full media player.
It is rather annoying, makes it limited use. Anything that isn’t in 16:9 isn’t worth playing.
Another vote here for fixing this please
For the average full-blown media player 90% of the s/w updates are to catch up with new codecs in the various video containers, AVI, MKV etc. I seriously doubt that Humax will go down that road anytime soon.
grahamlthompson – 5 days ago »
Modifying the file in a video editing package to create a 16:9 background black file should be fairly easy. If you can post a link to a clip I can have a go to see if it works.
hi Graham – what software do you use/recommend to convert the video file? cheers.
Al Catraz – 1 minute ago »
grahamlthompson – 5 days ago »
Modifying the file in a video editing package to create a 16:9 background black file should be fairly easy. If you can post a link to a clip I can have a go to see if it works.
hi Graham – what software do you use/recommend to convert the video file? cheers.
Being a camcorder user I have a couple of video editing packages I can try. Magix MX Pro premium and Sony Vegas Moviestudio Platinum. It may be possible to use one of the freebie options can’t really comment on these.
You can change video file aspect ratios with a pretty good freebie called Super©
I used to use it for converting video to fit my mobile phone screen.
grahamlthompson – 44 minutes ago »
Al Catraz – 1 minute ago »
grahamlthompson – 5 days ago »
Modifying the file in a video editing package to create a 16:9 background black file should be fairly easy. If you can post a link to a clip I can have a go to see if it works.
hi Graham – what software do you use/recommend to convert the video file? cheers.
Being a camcorder user I have a couple of video editing packages I can try. Magix MX Pro premium and Sony Vegas Moviestudio Platinum. It may be possible to use one of the freebie options can’t really comment on these.
thanks Graham
had a look around at the freebie offerings and found an opensource solution called AVStoDVD – seems to work quite nicely!
REPASSAC – 9 hours ago »
ariharry – 3 days ago »
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Humax have an excellent opportunity to push this capability, as combining a media player into a PVR is a fantastic capability to have, and is unique relative to sky plus others.
The HDR-1000S is a DLNA client rather than a full media player.
Yes, the HDR is a client served by a DLNA server, though DLNA much like other protocols is simply a transfer vehicle for the content.
The HDR does the hard job of demultiplexing the audio and video streams followed by decode (e.g. the bulk of what most media players do). It also appears to support many popular container formats and codecs, so all that’s needed is some sort of control over the display output (video post processing, e.g. scaling).
As for new codec support, the HDR supports all the key codecs (h.264, vc1, etc). New codecs like h.265 shall require new hardware, which is the case for most media players in the market today.
ariharry – 1 hour ago »
REPASSAC – 9 hours ago »
ariharry – 3 days ago »
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Humax have an excellent opportunity to push this capability, as combining a media player into a PVR is a fantastic capability to have, and is unique relative to sky plus others.
The HDR-1000S is a DLNA client rather than a full media player.
Yes, the HDR is a client served by a DLNA server, though DLNA much like other protocols is simply a transfer vehicle for the content.
The HDR does the hard job of demultiplexing the audio and video streams followed by decode (e.g. the bulk of what most media players do). It also appears to support many popular container formats and codecs, so all that’s needed is some sort of control over the display output (video post processing, e.g. scaling).
As for new codec support, the HDR supports all the key codecs (h.264, vc1, etc). New codecs like h.265 shall require new hardware, which is the case for most media players in the market today.
If you read the spec for a DLNA server – it should do the job of transcoding unless it knows the client can support it. A client is only required to support MPEG-2 but it can support a lot more
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