[mythtv-users] OTA ATSC Down-convert to SD/S-Video

[Michael Lynch]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM,  <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ahhh...The Febuary archives.  Google gave me posts from 2007, but I
>> guess I should've directly peeked at the archives.  The summary from
>> the thread last month seems to be somewhat unresolved & waiting on NVidia
>> to provide a driver update.
>>
>> But from what you're saying above & http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan ,
>> I think I should be fine so long as I want to stay in the Myth Menus &
>> Video playback, but might encounter problems if I try & run FireFox or
>> OpenOffice.  I'd be quite comfortable using SSH with an X tunnel or VNC.
>
> Yeah myth and xbmc and most apps that are designed for a TV allow you
> to adjust for overscan. If you do want to do firefox, I saw a thread
> where someone worked around the problem by setting up panels on each
> side of the screen. Then adjust the size so they cover the overscan
> portions of the screen and then set them make them transparent if you
> want (or can with your window manager). Then when you maximize other
> programs they will be limited to only where you can see by the panels.
> Quite hackish but it can work if you really need it.
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I guess just to put in my $0.02 - I currently record some OTA HD
channels and watch them on my SD TV using a 5200 and mx 4000 for
playback.  Some recordings have about a 3" black border around them,
and I just use zoom (full zoom if I remember correctly) to get it
looking right.  I haven't done anything special to have it 'down
convert' the recordings.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Lynchmv

My hardware is listed there for reference.