[mythtv-users] TV out size

[Steve Smith]

On 21/02/2008, Tim Phipps <mythtv-users at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Michael Skaastrup wrote:
> > There is some overscan in live tv which I expected but the image is not
> > perfectly centered and OSD menu is slightly off screen to the left.
> >
> > Can this be remedied?
>
> I don't think you can fix the image centering apart from adjusting the
> TV set (don't do it, there's high voltage in there). I think you may be
> able to edit the OSD theme to move it around, but I've not tried it so I
> don't know the details.
>
> >>  That's going to have a de-interlacer running even in 720x576Noscale so
> >>  you might have to live with a bit of smearing with interlaced action.
> >>  Films might be OK.
> >
> > You are rigth on. I get a little smearing or blurriness on action. Can i
> > solve this by de-interlacing output?
>
> I doubt it. De-interlacing always compromises the picture quality, doing
> it twice will probably make it worse. Since your TV-out is 50Hz
> interlaced and you TV-set is 100Hz (interlaced?) you will have to have a
> deinterlacer of some sort. I think the only way to not have motion smear
> is to have MythTV use onefield de-interlace. But then you lose half the
> vertical resolution. It won't get any better with LCD/plasma/OLED either
> since they're all progressive technologies and the broadcast stuff looks
> like sticking with interlaced. Anyone know if projectors can do
> interlaced?
>
> Cheers,
> Tim.
>
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Michael,

Seeing as you are in Europe, your best bet for the BEST quality picture is
going to be a RGB to SCART lead.
MUCH better than composite video, and you get to design the output mode
yourself, so no black bars etc...

See the Wiki for details....

Cheers

Steve
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