> * I'm in Canada (so NTSC) and I have VLC set to run at 720x480. However, on > movies that need to be scaled for letterbox, the movie is positioned at the > bottom of the screen when VLC Video Transcoding is set to DVD. When I set it > to manual and run vlc, it centres it on the screen. Can this be fixed?
The VLC code switches the height to 576 if you're set to PAL (which I believe is the mvpmc default) - did you pass -m ntsc on the command line in your dongle config, or choose NTSC under the Audio/Video settings? Martin has suggested I use si.rows to interrogate the resolution of the TV in future so I can ignore the PAL/NTSC setting. You can verify the transcode string mvpmc is sending by telneting into the mvpmc box (root/no pass) and doing cat /usr/share/mvpmc/connect.log, so I'd have a look at that make sure it's sending what it should be. > * What is the time in the upper-left side of the OSD when skipping? The > number > changes on me but seems arbitrary. I assume it's supposed to be the current > movie time; however, it is not correct. I assume this is a known problem? It is. There's a bug in the current VLC releases that prevents the length value being reported correctly by the stream. To get around this, the movie interrogation functions in mvpmc for VLC work off percentages, while the standard mvpmc ones work off timecode (hence the weird looking time value). This bug has been fixed in VLC now, but I'm going to hold off on changing these parameters to use time correctly until a VLC build is a bit more widely available (without it, you won't get the correct % position on the bar) as it's still only in their svn. > * I have some super-wide screen movies that I would like to watch on my 4:3 > TV. One of the videos I have is 720x288 (what kind of resolution is that?). I > fiddled with VLC settings but it didn't seem to make much of a difference. > It's letter-boxed almost correctly but about 1/8th off each side of the > picture. What can I do about this? Odd - the transcoding canvas should take care of that. If you're playing with manual settings I'd experiment with setting the canvas to 720x480, but make the height/width scaling slightly smaller to see if it helps (use the VLC command line switches to set and use mvpmc manual VLC mode) Not that it's any consolation but I have a few letterboxed movies at similar resolution and they work fine on my TV in both PAL and NTSC mode. Regards, Robin -- ===================================================== Robin Rawson-Tetley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Yahoo: bobintetley MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GTalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: http://www.rawsontetley.org I prefer encrypted email. Download my public key from http://www.rawsontetley.org/rrtpk.asc.gz
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