Wrong aspect ratio with DV AVI files in PiTiVi

[Stefan Nagy]

When I import a DV AVI file (an amorphic widescreen video) in PiTiVi v0.13.5 the aspect ratio of the video isn't correct (and I can't correct it). I suppose it has something to do with the PAR (pixel aspect ratio) which isn't detected. The PiTiVi-developers told me on the #pitivi-channel on freenode that this is a GStreamer-bug. I have the same problem if I try to open the file with Totem using GStreamer.

I don't have the problem with Kino (http://kinodv.org/), so it seems like my files can't be the cause of the problem.

Release: Ubuntu 10.10

[Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy)]

I add two screenshots: one of pitivi and the other of kino, both showing the same scene of the same DV AVI file. In both cases I didn't do anything else but to import the file and set the timeline to a certain time.

In contrast to PiTiVi (GStreamer) Kino seems to recognize the pixel aspect ratio of the video.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

This has been fixed upstream - see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595286
The fix has been released in gstreamer 1.1 but it is a development release and it's developers explicitly recommend that distributions do not package it. All changes in gstreamer 1.1 should eventually appear in the gstreamer 1.2 stable release.

[Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy)]

@ madbiologisst: Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Since I didn't need to edit any more videos I didn't keep track of this bug. I'm working on Debian (Jessie) now and I can't reproduce this bug anymore with gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.13-5) – neither with PiTiVi 0.15.2-0.2 nor with Totem 3.0.1-8.

So I can confirm the comment #7 in the upstream bug report: "Seems to work fine now."