On Thursday 23 November 2006 1:14 am, Robin Rawson-Tetley wrote: > > * 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?
Ah! Adding -m ntsc on the command line seems to have made all the difference. It doesn't matter what VLC options I have specified. It also didn't seem to make a difference, strangely enough, whether I had specified NTSC in the options menu; it all came down to the -m ntsc. > > * 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) The -m ntsc also fixed this problem. And once I got perlboot (mvpboot) working correctly, everything is great. No more relying on Windows on VMware. Thanks! Brett ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
