[mythtv-users] black border in ffmpeg nuvexport

[Jonathan Markevich]

Chris Petersen wrote:

>> I'm working on exporting to MPEG using ffmpeg in nuvexport, I can get 
>> it working really fast ( 70-120fps on my Sempron 2400+) but the only 
>> problem I have remaining is that despite the source and the 
>> destination being the same resolution (352x240) the resulting MPG has 
>> a black border all around it - the frame ends up being something like 
>> 340x232 or something odd like that...
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> Does your source also have this border?  Most broadcasters add some 
> sort of padding to account for the tv's picture tube extending beyond 
> the border of the tv's frame.  That's why I added the "crop" option on 
> the nuvexport modules that I could (the ones that use transcode).

Nope, unless the internal viewer auto-crops it or automatically does 
some wild overscan that eliminates it entirely (I really doubt that).  
It just looks different between the original and the exported version.