Harald, when I get 4 black borders on my widescreen, it means I'm watching a show that was originally widescreen but has been retransmitted in standard def. My cable company does this for many channels that don't have separate high-def and standard-def feeds, like the Sci-Fi channel.
This means a 16:9 image has been fit into a 4:3 box which adds top and bottom borders. What MythTV gets is that 4:3 box. It, by default, tries to fit that 4:3 image as best it can on my 16:9 screen. That means that MythTV leaves left and right borders black. Viola! There are your four borders. My answer is to use the 'Change Aspect Ratio' function and set it to "4:3 Zoom". This doesn't make a standard-def image high-def but it does allow the image to fill my entire screen. Hope this helps. Kirk Bocek Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Watching widescreen TV I get huge black bars at all > 4 edges of the screen: 2 black bars at top and bottom > to crop the 16:9 image to 4:3, and 2 black bars at > the left and right edge, because my monitor cannot > display 4:3 images :-(. > > How can I tell ivtv that I've got a 16:10 monitor, or > (even better) to turn off cropping completely, and > let the mpeg viewer handle cropping instead? > > > Many thanx in advance > > Harri > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
