[mythtv-users] HD recordings playback with black borders on top and bottom

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 19:57:55 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I set up a new system and all my recordings from firewire seem to
> exhibit this same problem.  There is a black border on the top and the
> bottom but no borders on the side.  This basically distorts the
> recording because it resizes it to only be about 2/3 of its normal
> height.  I checked to make sure adjust fill is off.  I am trying to
> figure out what other setting would affect this.  I also turned off
> use gui size for tv playback, and while that made the recording fill
> more of the screen, it did not fill the screen.  If I change the auto
> fill setting to full, it fills up the screen, but there is overscan,
> and I suspect what is happening is that my image is being scaled down
> and then scaled up, which seems like an unideal situation.
>
> For comparison, I play the same file in mplayer and it fills the screen.
>
> I feel like I am missing something obvious here.
>

I did some research and saw that you need to set up the proper aspect
ratio in xorg.conf.

I added these lines to xorg.conf:
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Television"
        VendorName "Toshiba"
        ModelName "46H84"
        DisplaySize 482 274
EndSection


And then I added this line to the Screen section:
        Monitor   "Television"

I still get the black bars though.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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