[mythtv-users] Adjusting the recording frame on a PVR500?

[Marc Sherman]

Justin Hornsby wrote:
>>   
> What you'll actually find is that the capture card is grabbing the whole 
> video signal including the parts you don't normally see on a TV (you 
> don't see them because TVs generally overscan).  Users with ordinary TVs 
> needn't worry about that because the normally unseen parts remain unseen 
> (again due to overscan).
> 
> This is one of the reasons why the 'holy grail' of using PCs on flat 
> panels (i.e. making the desktop edges fit the screen edges precisely) is 
> slightly misguided.  It's actually _useful_ to have around 5% of the 
> picture 'off screen' at the edges.

Yeah, I figured that was probably what it was. So given that I've got 
perfect display fidelity on playback (I'm using a TV, but it's an LCD 
connected by DVI, so it's behaving like a monitor), is it possible have 
either myth or ivtv adjust for the overscan at recording time, rather 
than recording it and then trimming it off at playback time?

Thanks,
- Marc