[mythtv-users] Remove black border from recordings

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/04/15 01:32, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jan.ceuleers at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 02/04/15 19:28, Matt Emmott wrote:
> >     > Are you sure that your recordings aren't just standard-definition
> and a
> >     > different aspect ratio than the Myth interface? What if you open
> the
> >     > playback menu (M button) video - adjust fill - full (This is from
> memory
> >     > so the steps might not be completely accurate)? I think there's
> also an
> >     > info button that will tell you the recording's resolution but
> don't know
> >     > where that is.
> >
> >     They are SD recordings in 16:9 format, and I am already using adjust
> >     fill.
> >
> > The "w" key toggles through several different aspect ratios.
>
> Thank you, but this is not about aspect ratios. Let me state the problem
>  more clearly.
>
> Videos play back pixel-perfect: I see all of the picture on my TV (i.e.
> I've disabled overscan), and all of the TV's rows and columns are being
> used for displaying the picture.
>
> Recordings however are displayed with a couple of centimeters of black
> in the left-hand margin, half a centimeter of black on the right, some
> bkack at the bottom as well and none at the top.
>
> So my question is whether/how I can properly play back these recordings
> without also fouling up the way that videos are played back.
>
> I've checked the recording profile, and it only has options for the
> picture size (in pixels), not the position relative to horizontal and
> vertical sync.
>
> Thanks, Jan
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There are settings that you can adjust in Front end>Set up>Playback>2nd
page, that might help you see this wiki:
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend#General_Playback_.282.2F8.2

I do not know if this will effect recording playback only though.
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