Ok this is just from my experience. First i would have to say how big are the black lines, a 3-6 inches or just a couple or less. If 3-6, I have a newer CRT Tube, that has component in and with Mythtv i can get 480p (or 480i i forget right now), but all my recordings are 4:3, so if i'm outputing in my
Xorg.conf file that 480p i have to force myth to use 16:9 when showing recordings. However, if i'm exporting 1024x768, and the recordings are also 4:3, the gui fills up but my TV recordings don't fill the screen, usually again on right and left, but only by about an inch, so in the playback settings i have to overscan just the TV part and not the GUI.
<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">D</b> <<a href="mailto:daspiras@gmail.com">daspiras@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I only have a sd tube tv - it should be 4:3. My first thought was an<br>overscan issue. but the mythtv gui fills the screen except for a wee
<br>bit at the top and the bottom that I need to tweak the overscan for.<br>Recording at 4:3 on the other hand, places black bars on the left and<br>right side of the video when playing back (unless I zoom or fill).<br>Square on the other hand works and looks fine, filling the same
<br>screensize as mythgui, but it seems like the wrong thing to be doing.<br> Maybe I should try recording at 4:3 and playing it on my desktop to<br>see if the black bars are indeed encoded in the video as I think they<br>
are.<br><br>I mean, technically it looks as good as the regular live straight<br>cable to tv for everything except sporting events, but it doesn't seem<br>to be the right thing to be doing.<br><br>On 3/5/07, Brian Wood <
<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On Mar 5, 2007, at 7:32 PM, D wrote:<br>><br>> > Thanks for all the feedback guys. Upping the encode rates has seemed<br>> > to help. A related question: resolutions and aspect ratios
<br>> ><br>> > Currently I record and play at 720x480 but I have to set the aspect<br>> > ratio to square in order to have it fill the screen. If I set it to<br>> > 4:3 there are black bars on each side (and possibly the top, its hard
<br>> > to tell). This happens even if I record/play in 640x480 as well. If<br>> > I don't have it set to square, 4:3 zoom/fill using the W key during<br>> > playback works, although it looks worse than set to square. I don't
<br>> > seem to be losing any of the video when I compare it to what the<br>> > direct cable to the tv shows, but I am a little confused as to why 4:3<br>> > doesn't work properly?<br>><br>> If your source material is 4:3 and you want it to "fill" a 16:9
<br>> screen then you have to either distort the image in one of several<br>> ways or put up with the "reverse letter box" effect.<br>><br>> Or is that not what you meant?<br>> _______________________________________________
<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
</a><br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely, <br><br>MacNean C. Tyrrell