[mythtv-users] Cropping with PVR-150

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com 
> > wrote:
>
> It sounds like the black bar you're talking about IS the VBI
> information, so you can't get rid of it and keep it at the same  
> time. ;)
> The solution is to set overscan when you play it back. I believe
> industry standard is that TV is meant to be played back with 3%
> overscan to crop out that stuff. Set that in your frontend and you'll
> be viewing the program in its originally intended size.
>
> -Brad
> The funny thing is that the black bar is at the bottom, whereas the  
> flickering VBI stuff would be at the top.  So some combination of  
> the PVR-150 and ivtv must be manipulating the image to create this  
> bar.  I would prefer it to leave the image alone *and* decode the cc  
> information, so that it fits into my existing method of dealing with  
> overscan.

Then I'm wrong.

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