On Tuesday 06 December 2005 17:59, Brandon Stoll wrote: > I'm not sure if this is something everyone sees or if nobody else > has complained, but all the channels I'm getting with Comcast are > recording and whenever a 4:3 program/ad comes on, there is a huge > white bar at the top of the recording. When I use the cable connected > to my TV's digital tuner, it either cuts this off or doesn't have this > problem at all. It's hard to give an example without putting a big > recording up, and the JPEG compression kills the effect the lines have > on the video, but here are a few screenshots- the first showing a > normal picture, the second two being commercials during the same > recording. > > http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-1.jpg > http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-2.jpg > http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-3.jpg > > Is this normal? If it is, how hard would it be to have MythTV > detect the line to automatically switch to the correct aspect ratio > and cut these lines off? They are incredibly annoying since they > flicker white/black on one side, and I'd like to have a correctly > stretched picture since burn-in is an issue for me. Another thing I > found interesting is some of the PVR350 recordings have this same > faint line show up every once and a while-almost as if the image was > being cropped badly by the broadcaster. I have no other cards that > can get QAM, so I don't even know if this is a driver thing but it > really doesn't look like it to me.
haven't noticed this here. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users