[mythtv-users] making capture a real 640x480-getting rid of blackbars

[Will Dormann]

At 08:38 PM 5/17/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>One thing I use mythtv for is to capture tv shows I want to archive to
>cd. (history channel is the big one) When I get them moved over to my
>workstation to edit them (or just watch them in mplayer) there is enough
>black space on the right and bottom than when I crop the video and put
>it back to 640x480 (what I captured it at) it's stretching the picture
>badly.


There shouldn't be any black borders.   If you do a "cat /dev/video0 >
/tmp/test.mpg" , does the resulting video have any borders?   Does the
video have borders when played back on other machines?

If there are borders, that's an IVTV thing.


-WD