[mythtv-users] making capture a real 640x480-getting rid of blackbars

Jeff "Muddy" Waters mythtv at muddysmind.com
Mon May 17 22:43:01 EDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 22:16, Will Dormann wrote:
> At 08:38 PM 5/17/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >One thing I use mythtv for is to capture tv shows I want to archive to
> >cd. (history channel is the big one) When I get them moved over to my
> >workstation to edit them (or just watch them in mplayer) there is enough
> >black space on the right and bottom than when I crop the video and put
> >it back to 640x480 (what I captured it at) it's stretching the picture
> >badly.
> 
> 
> There shouldn't be any black borders.   If you do a "cat /dev/video0 >
> /tmp/test.mpg" , does the resulting video have any borders?   Does the
> video have borders when played back on other machines?
> 
> If there are borders, that's an IVTV thing.

Thank you for the tip, I'll try that and see how it goes.



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