<div dir="ltr">I recently installed a Hauppauge PVR-150 to complement my two HDHomeRun boxes, with the s-video input connected to a DirecTiVo box. I have closed captioning enabled in the mythtv setup, which works great, except that the PVR-150 seems to be cropping around 10 lines from the top, and inserting a horizontal black bar at the bottom. Doing "cat /dev/video > /tmp/foo.mpg" and then playing foo.mpg with xine or mplayer also shows the black bar (as well as a smaller vertical black bar on the left), and foo.mpg is at 720x480 resolution.<br>
<br>If I first execute "v4l2-ctl -b off", then the bottom black bar is no longer there in foo.mpg (though the small black bar on the left is the same). I'm guessing that the PVR-150 and/or ivtv are helpfully stripping the VBI information. But this is not really necessary since I already have global settings to deal with the flickering VBI line in the picture that the HDHR picks up from digital SD broadcasts.<br>
<br>Is there a way to get rid of this bottom black bar and also keep closed captions?<br><br>I'm running MythDora 5. I'm not quite sure how to figure out what version of ivtv I have.<br><br>Jim<br></div>