Looks like I have a project to play with this weekend. Evan
n Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:17:09 -0400 Rob Shortt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For everyone, this is an important read: http://scanline.ca/overscan/ > > Mark Benson wrote: > > If you are going to use overscan, then the interface should be designed to > > take into account the TV Safe area. > > Freevo does take into account the safe action area and overscan area > (referring to the area outside of the safe action area). That's what > OSD_OVERSCAN_X and OSD_OVERSCAN_Y are for. If your tv encoder is > overscanning ~20 pixels we must make sure not to draw that close to the > 'edge' of the tv signal. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gray, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <snip> > > >>yes I have, and I also need to make the GUI image smaller somehow. > > So, you want to make the safe action area smaller - that is what > Freevo's overscan settings do. > > >>overscan settings will not take negative numbers so those are useless (I > >>want a -20 setting!) > > That is like saying you want Freevo to draw outside of the tv signal > which doesn't make sense. > > Your dxr3 (or any tv output method / encoder / xserver / drivers) is > responsible for actually overscanning the picture. Many xservers that > support tv-out also have an overscan setting for this, the same is true > for some framebuffer drivers, and some just overscan a certain amount > automatically. > > So, if your tv-out is overscanning 30 pixels horizontally and in Freevo > your OSD_OVERSCAN_X is only set to 20 then freevo will draw things > outside of your visible tv border, outside of the safe action area. You > would need at least a value of 30 (probably a bit more) for > OSD_OVERSCAN_X to make it look right. Our overscan settings really > determine what Freevo thinks is the safe action area. > > >>so yes it works, except that the freevo GUI is overscanning too far. > > It sounds like your dxr3 is overscanning too far and you need to tell > Freevo just how much. > > HTH, > -Rob > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
