[mythtvnz] how to best "fit" mythtv to a TV monitor?

[David Zanetti]

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On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:40 +1200, Jason Haar wrote:

> One of them is that mythtv seems to think our TV screen is bigger than
> it really is - so there is a wee bit missing from the left, right and
> bottom. e.g I can only see part of the first letter on the initial
> screen on the TV - and can't see the "Next" button at all on the bottom
> right. All looks fine when viewing the system via VNC from another box -
> so it must be a TV monitor issue.

Television is naturally overscanned. Normally input video takes this
into account, and ensures everything you *must* see is actually some
ways from the edges of the video.

You need to take that into account with either a modeline that puts the
"visible" video inside the actually physically visible part of your TV
(and it will vary from TV to TV), or make a modeline that matches a
proper overscan output, and then make MythTV use a smaller GUI size.

I did the latter. I think it results in a better output, because the
capture from any source will include all that overscan picture as well..
so if you *do* make the visible portion in X fit your TV, you have to
trim the video you've captured as well.. etc..

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David Zanetti <david.zanetti@catalyst.net.nz>
Team Leader, Systems Administration
Catalyst IT Limited
+64-4-8032233 +64-21-402260

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