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This works


CustomFFmpegOptions = -aspect 4:3



OverrideFFmpegVideoFilter = pad=max(iw\\,ih*(16/9)):ow/(16/9):(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2,scale=pal


The Buffalo LinkTheater P4-PLWAG requires the MPEG2 anamorphic flag to be UNSET when receiving anamorphic material that is to be displayed on a 16:9 ...

certainly I think the pad has to come before the scale otherwise a 16:9 movie will never fill the 720x576 PAL anamorphic container.

The pad has to create a 16:9 source, then that has to be squashed by scale to 720x576, e.g. cinematic 1.85:1 source of size 888x480 has to be first letterboxed to ...

OK, I fixed the syntax error - only the commas in the min() function need to be escaped, so I put


OverrideFFmpegVideoFilter = scale=iw*min(720/iw\\,576/ih):ih*min(720/iw\\,576/ih),pad=720:576:(720-iw)/2:(576-ih)/2


and this is accepted by FFMpeg, but it has exactly no effect - I'm still seeing ...

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply to my problem.

Adding the line you supplied and setting the other two options back to their defaults gets me this...


DEBUG 05:47:39.868 [ffmpeg.exe-2] Starting C:\Program Files\Universal Media Server\win32\ffmpeg.exe -y -loglevel info -i F:\Video\ASMR ...

Hi,

Trying to set up a Buffalo LinkTheater P4-PLWAG PAL (Scart) renderer to my analogue (CRT) 16:9 widescreen TV via PAL composite.

I realise that everything in my server needs to be transcoded into a 720x576 MPEG2-PS container with the 16:9 anamorphic flag set, so I have tried adding the ...