[vdr] Re: AW: exact size of frames

[Mike Pieper <mptei@t-online.de>]

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:40, Michael Kunzmann wrote:
> But when doing your picture viewer, don't forget the overscan of most
> tv-sets, that is the outer five percent of the picture are not visible
> on most tv-sets, so you might have to add borders to the pictures before
> displaying them on the tv in order to see the whole picture.

Beside the overscan area you also should take into account that the TV pixels 
are not square. The 720x576 is 768x576 in square pixels, i.e. when you put a 
photo (which normally has square pixels) with 720x576 to the TV screen it 
will look a little bit streched.

Mike