[mythtv-users] Black Bars in Mythtv

[Dwight Hubbard]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Rogers <me at jonathanrogers.name> wrote:
>  Unfortunately, even moving to all digital TV doesn't necessarily get
>  rid of junk around the edges. The MythTV system I mostly use has two
>  digital ATSC receivers and one PVR-150, which is seldom used. Quite a
>  bit of new programs I record from local digital TV broadcasts are HD
>  720p or 1080i, and look very nice, with clean edges. However, the
>  local stations still broadcast a lot of shows at SD 480i resolution
>  digitally, and those broadcasts often have black bars on top and
>  bottom, left and right, or both. Quite a few of these shows were
>  designed to be shown with a 16:9 aspect ratio, but I have to use
>  MythTV's fill mode to get them to fill the screen of my 16:9 HDTV.
>  They also often have junk right at the top of the frame, which I think
>  might be something like CC encoded in the VBI which was incorrectly
>  included in the video frame when digitizing.

I have a user job that crops the black bars and removes the junk from
the top/bottom of the frame.

My wife was really annoyed by the junk on the top/bottom of her Doctor
Phil programs after I switch to recording using an HD Tuner...

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Dwight Hubbard (RHCE, VCP)
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