[mythtv-users] Change LiveTV side panel when 4:3 on 16:9

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/21/2006 12:16 PM, Joe Votour wrote:

>>Does anyone know if it's possible to change the color on the black "side
>>panels" that occurs when watching LiveTV in 4:3 format on a widescreen
>>16:9 TV?
>>
>There's two kinds of 4:3 television that you're likely to get - what's
>really 16:9 with borders added to make it 4:3, and then real 4:3.  The
>first comes from HD channels where the show is non-widescreen, the second
>comes from a real 4:3 analog source.
>
>In the first case, the black borders are actually encoded into the signal
>(at least in the MPEG-2 files that MythTV is making for me from my DViCO
>FusionHDTV 5 Lite).  In the second case, I believe that it is the MPEG-2
>decoder adding in the black border.
>
>With a software change, I suspect that you might be able to fix the second
>case, but the first case would require actual MPEG-2 parsing and replacing
>to swap the color.
>  
>

Although, if you simply want to cover the grey (, etc.) bars that some 
stations put around content with black bars, you can always use the crop 
playback filter ( http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-10.html#ss10.4 ).

Mike