Hi, mike lewis wrote:
I'm sorry for the late reply :-(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.htmlOK, this seems to be my issue. Is there any easy way to analyse the a vdr recording to see if it contains afd's?
I'm was hoping there would be some way of having vdr adjust its own display mode based on the afd. In any case this is of super low priority, just getting the image display correct is the biggest issue for me.
VDR doesn't process the video stream: VDR just records it ;-) It's xine which has to do processing and scaling.
Well, I experience the same problem too: most xine developers are busy with other things and it takes quite some time until my patches for vdr-xine get integrated into CVS. But I don't mind: it's a hobby and not business ;-)I've asked about scaling on the xine list a few times, and have not recieved even one reply. I don't think they are intrested in my problem, I think most users in australia are using mythtv, which I think has xoom/afd support already.