[mythtv-users] overscan on PVR-350 tv-out

[Torsten Schenkel]

Am Sa, den 27.12.2003 schrieb John Wells um 18:16:
> Torsten Schenkel said:
> > Well, that's not entirely correct. In fact, the pvr350 did it as desired
> for quite a while now. Scaling the GUI size and keeping video output
> full screen. You can adjust the GUI size and offsets to fill the screen
> (smaller than full screen) and have the video be displayed full screen.
> Look for gui size and offsets in the appearance menus.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here...you mean in MythTV's appearance menus?
> 
> Btw, MythTV's menu screens now display portions off-screen as well, making
> some of them almost unusable.  There's got to be a way to scale this
> thing?

Yes, that's what I said, from my walkthrough:

-- Setup Mythfrontend:

	After you rebooted your machine, you should see the mythgui on
	the TV (provided you did everything from above and I didn't
	mess up with the above instructions). Your remote should
	work. Use it to go to the setup screen.

	
	There is not much to say about all the settings, look at the
	mythtv docs, I'll summarize what is special for the pvr and
	what I think is important.

	Mythfrontend doesn't run as root, so make sure user mythtv
	and/or group mythtv have rw access to all directories!

	The TV out of the pvr has perfect overscan, so the gui will be
	off screen partly, with the pvr you have the possibility to
	set gui size independently from the tv/video size.

	Setup/Appearence:

		Set gui size to something like: 648x544+50+15

	Setup TV/Playback:

		Set Deinterlace to OFF!
		Set "Use PVR350 hardware decoding" ON!
		Set video out device to /dev/video16 (it should be
		that for default)

		
		Set Overscan values to 8x8 to get OSD fully on screen
		Off screen display also abbreviates to OSD, so no joke here ;-)

		Play with the above settings, till you get all GUI and
		OSD on screen and centered to your liking, this
		depends on your TV set, so the above values are only a
		start.
	

	Thanks to Simon, who pointed it out to me that the "Use PVR350
	h/w decoding" option was off screen if you didn't set the size
	first and you can't find it if you don't know where it is :-)

-- 
Config files for PVR350 TV-Out:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
Walkthrough: MythTV on Epia with PVR350 using Debian:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough