[mythtv-users] overscan problems with nvidia 8400 GS

Phil Wild philwild at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 01:21:31 UTC 2009


> It has been observed in this thread that there can be "edge effects" and a small amount of overscan can correct this.  I agree with
> that, one line at the edge, even one pixel wide, that is out of sync with the rest of the image is extremly distracting and
> annoying.  Scaling the image to hide those annoying lines is a necessary evil - a volume like slider is all that is required to
> scale the small required amount.  Thats all.  Certainly much less than 19% of a HD image needs to be hid.
>

In my opinion, a blanking mechanism would be a much better solution
than an overscaling mechanism. I would prefer to see 1:1 pixel mapping
used and have the surrounding 1-2 pixels blanked to black to remove
any noise etc if actually needed.


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