[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.6.2 plugin

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:54, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:33, mike lewis wrote:
> > Reinhard,
> >
> > I'm wodering if you could clear something up for me.  I've using
> > vdr-xine to dvb-tv in australia.  However, many programs are sent in
> > an mpweg2 stream boxed with a black border the whole way around.  The
> > programs are generally older programs but it means on a 29inch 4:3 tv,
> > you get about a 20" picture with black around the picture of about
> > 2-3" the whole way around.
>
> Eww, not nice. Here in Europe even the older programs are sent normal.
> What I noticed is that many stations send a black border on the left
> side, but that one is not larger than 10 pixels or so.

Mike may be watching broadcasts using 'AFD' which means that 4:3 broadcasts 
occur in a 16:9 frame - I had this thick-border problem when I briefly used a 
Dxr3 with VDR over a year ago.

http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/06-2004/msg00837.html

gdh