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

[Jeff "Muddy" Waters]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 22:43, Jeff "Muddy" Waters wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 22:16, Will Dormann wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Thank you for the tip, I'll try that and see how it goes.
> 
> 
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I shall consult the ivtv gods then, it's there on every station, however
it's a different size for each one. Which makes no sense since I'm
recording off the s-video out on my digital cable box.
At least I have a better idea where the trouble is, thank you for your
time Will.