[mythtv-users] Remove black border from recordings

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 17:49:14 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

That is Front end> Set up> Video> Playback> 2nd page,
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