Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > To followup on my own message... > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:53:51PM -0500, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > But it's not the application that is the problem. It happens with > > mplayer as well as dfbtv and I am sure it will show the same thing > > with my GTK app. once I get it working with CRTC2, or any of the > > DirectFB demo apps. > > > > The problem seems to be with displaying the framebuffer on the > > television screen. The top and bottom of the framebuffer are off of > > the top and bottom of the displayable area of my television. > > This problem seems to have disappeared with a reboot into a new > kernel, although there is nothing new in the kernel to explain why. > Oh well, let sleeping dogs lie. > > I did some comparisons with live TV and the same live TV signal > recored and played back (only slightly delayed) through mplayer. The > amount of visible picture is the same, however the OSD in the top left > is still off the screen. > > I suspect that there is some portion of the border of a television > broadcast signal that is not seen on a television. I have noticed > this when I compare a television program on the television with what I > see when I record it and play it on the computer. There is a lot more > bottom border on CNN (i.e. under the scrolling text) for instance when > you watch it on a computer than when you watch on regular television.
Television screens cut off borders. If you have 720x576 you will likely see just 640x480 of it. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" Convergence GmbH -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
