[mythtv] [PATCH]Black border filter

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Tue Sep 7 05:00:41 EDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:39:03AM +1000, Christian Hack wrote:
> > > Australian DVB stations love transmitting:
> > > 1) 4:3 inside 16:9
> > > and
> > > 2) 16:9 inside 4:3 inside 16:9 (if you know what I mean...)
> > Not really : is the last 16:9 your screen aspect ?
> 
> No my screen is 4:3. ALL transmissions are 16:9 here. If a program is only
> 4:3 I get black borders all around (top/bottom due to displaying 16:9
> transmission on 4:3 TV, and left/right due to 4:3 program transmitted on
> 16:9). In this case there are no black lines horizontally.

Yes some channels are fond of doing 1) in the UK (DVB-t).  Some
channels do actually show 4:3 stuff at 4:3 though!  I only have 4:3
screens and find the tiny picture in the middle (as you describe
above) annoying! Just about all adverts seem to be 16:9 here so I
haven't seen 2).

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