[mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

korebantic korebantic at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 16:21:34 EST 2005


That gives me something to start with, thank you sir ;-]

On 12/8/05, Keith C <mythtv at keithandjill.com> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:38 AM, korebantic wrote:
>
> > It looks like my overscanning problems with the PVR350 are comming
> > back to bother me again in MythTV. All the videos I watch happen to be
> > subtitled anime, and the subtitles are being cutoff at the bottom of
> > my screen.
> >
> > Any suggestions on settings for mplayer (or maybe it needs to be
> > somewhere else) to scale the video down some?
> >
>
> I use the following in ~/.mplayer/config for my 720p output :
>
> vf = scale=1184:-2,expand=1280:720:38::0
>
> You can adjust it for your display size.  the scale argument scales
> the video to 1184 wide and the -2 for vertical tells it to maintain
> the original aspect ratio.  Then the expand argument creates a black
> window 1280 wide by 720 tall, and places the newly scaled video 38
> pixels in from the left, while centering the vertical.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Keith C
>
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