[Zuikkis]

Hi,

I have a bunch of old home videos, recorded with a Sony "fullhd" camera from 15 years ago..

Videos are in mpeg-ts format. ffmpeg dump:

Input #0, mpegts, from '00296.MTS':
  Duration: 00:00:01.57, start: 1.040000, bitrate: 12037 kb/s
  Program 1
    Stream #0:0[0x1011]: Video: h264 (Main) (HDMV / 0x564D4448), yuv420p(top first), 1440x1080 [SAR 4:3 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 50 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
    Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s

The resolution is only 1440x1080. To my understanding "[SAR 4:3 DAR 16:9]" means player is supposed to stretch the image to 16:9 ratio? Kodi does not do this, it plays video in 4:3 so everything looks too narrow. However in the video listing it shows "1.78:1" as the aspect ratio, but still plays it in 4:3.

It looks fine on PC played with any other player I have tried. Also I seem to remember they showed correctly in Kodi running on Linux PC, but now on Android they look wrong.

I know I can fix this by setting "play 4:3 videos in full screen" from Kodi settings. But then it will stretch all other 4:3 videos too. Or is there some way to set this only for one directory?

Example clip:
https://zuik.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/23mp5NP426e34pb

[Zuikkis]

Interestingly, files play ok when converted to mkv. Just copied streams to new container, so it's very fast to do with ffmpeg.

ffmpeg -i file.MTS -c copy -o file.mkv

I made a script that batch converts my whole home video directory, it's easy to rerun when new videos are added.

But really odd that it doesn't work without converting.