[mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

korebantic korebantic at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 21:25:54 EST 2005


The trouble seems to be with using the "-fs" option. No matter what I
scale the output to, the PVR350 overscan still cuts off the subtitles.
Is this just endemic with the PVR350 or am I doing something wrong
here?

The only thing that doesn't cut off the subtitles that I could get to
work was the following:

mplayer -quiet -geometry 32%:50%  -display :0 \
 -vf scale=520:-2 -zoom -vo xv /var/video/mythvideo/Lunar_Bleach_58.avi

However, that leaves me with the window frame and a little clutter
from fluxbox to look at while I watch my videos. Would the expand
option be the correct way to blackout that area?

On 12/8/05, korebantic <korebantic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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