[mythtv-users] xScanDisplacement

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Jul 14 11:44:19 EDT 2003


On Monday 14 July 2003 05:33 am, rwk at americom.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am unable to get xScanDisplacement and the other settings to work.
> There is about an inch of blank space at the top and right of my TV
> screen when playing mythtv and I am unable to affect it with the
> playback settings.  The only thing I have been able to do is reduce the
> size of the picture (making the blank space even greater).  That is, by
> setting overscan/underscan negative, the picture gets smaller.  Setting
> it to anything positive has no effect.  Setting the displacement also
> has no effect.
>
> I am running a Hauppauge PVR-250 on a VIA EPIA M10000 Nehemiah using the
> S-video out port under Redhat 9 and mythtv from CVS as of Jul 3 2003
> (although I have never been able to get it to work since v0.8 when I
> started).
>
> Is it supposed to work with Hauppauge mpeg2 files?

Yes, however, the via Xv driver does not support clipping the incoming video 
at all, so you can't really use those controls.

Isaac


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