Re: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-03 Thread Ed W
WSS or whatever it's called tells what aspect it is in, but i asume that WSS is not accurate and/or not being transmitted otherwise there wouldn't be a problem A patch to detect WSS has been posted before, but I don't think it's in the code. Actually I think it is called something else an

Re: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-03 Thread Ian Caulfield
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Neale Swinnerton wrote: also, I thought WSS signalled the TV to change aspect ratio, rather than signalled changes to the recorder? Channel 4 broadcasts WSS on their analogue signal, so it could theoretically be read by a recorder... I ___

Re: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-02 Thread Neale Swinnerton
Ian Caulfield wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Torbjörn Jansson wrote: Or is there meta data in the broadcast signal which provides the necessary information? WSS or whatever it's called tells what aspect it is in, but i asume that WSS is not accurate and/or not being transmitted otherwise there

Re: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 06:39:36PM +0100, Ian Caulfield wrote: > On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Torbjörn Jansson wrote: > > >>Or is there meta data in the > >>broadcast signal which provides the necessary information? > >> > > > >WSS or whatever it's called tells what aspect it is in, but i asume that > >WS

RE: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-02 Thread Ian Caulfield
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Torbjörn Jansson wrote: Or is there meta data in the broadcast signal which provides the necessary information? WSS or whatever it's called tells what aspect it is in, but i asume that WSS is not accurate and/or not being transmitted otherwise there wouldn't be a problem

RE: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-02 Thread Torbjörn Jansson
> I use dvb in australia on a 4:3 tv, and the display usually > has black borders at the top and the bottom of the screen, > but sometimes also on the left and right, depending on > whether the content is broadcast in widescreen or not. It > would be nice to have a feature which automatically selec

Re: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-01 Thread Stuart Morgan
On Sat 1 October 2005 15:35, Dennis Tell wrote: > Indeed. Thanks for that, just what I needed. The "fill" mode wasn't > mentioned in the on screen menu, or in the keys.txt file, and I wasn't > using "w" to access aspect ratio options, just the menu, so I never > discovered it... > > About your sugg

Re: [mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-01 Thread Dennis Tell
Indeed. Thanks for that, just what I needed. The "fill" mode wasn't mentioned in the on screen menu, or in the keys.txt file, and I wasn't using "w" to access aspect ratio options, just the menu, so I never discovered it... About your suggestion; I'm wondering when and how the video stream aspect r

[mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-01 Thread William Uther
Hi, As I'm sure others will also tell you, there already is a simple mechanism for this. If you hit 'w' then the system will cycle between various 'aspect ratio overrides'. Two of them are 'Fill', which zooms in so that the image fills the entire screen, and 'Off', which zooms out so t

[mythtv] Automatic zoom to remove black borders for dvb

2005-10-01 Thread Dennis Tell
Hi all, I was just wondering if there are any plans to incorporate functionality to automatically select zoom mode based on the displayed content. I found some posts about this from 2003, but as I cannot find any such feature in mythtv I assume that it wasn't implemented. Has this been discussed s