[vdr] Re: Mplayer and TV Overscan

[Jochen Radmacher <jradmacher@gmx.de>]

Hi,
John Asher wrote:

> Hello
> I'm using vdr 1.3.12 + almost every plugin :D
> Among these, is mplayer...
>
> I use it to watch my favorites fansubbed animes on my tv which has a
> very bad overscan, it eats about 20pixels on every border, do someone
> know what's the parameter to add in my mplayer.sh (well, actually not
> mine...it's the one used on this ml...) to add those borders during the
> postprocessing?
>  
I had the same problem (also with fansubs) and now im using "-vf 
expand=-40:-40" (more info in the manpage). But the actual border size 
depends on the (hardware)zoom factor. You may have to experiment with 
the values.
And for softsubs I use "-subpos 82".

Greets,
Jochen