Live TV Display Positioning

[jsteele]

I am having problem with the positioning and size of the Live TV display

If I start GBPVR (NTSC) in full screen mode (on a 640x480 display) the main screen appears to be positioned correctly (aside from a mystifying several pixel white border at the bottom and right of the display.) However, opening Live TV there is a black bar at the right and left of the TV image.

The only way I have been able to get the TV image to go edge to edge is to start with command line positioning (gbpvr.exe -pos:-10,0,720,480 -noframe) This results in the video going edge to left edge but is obviously being cutoff on the right. The main and other screens are shifted left 10 pixels but it doesn't seem to be a problem.

This is about the best appearing video that I have been able to achieve thus far. If I set the horizontal size to something less than 720, say 650 for example (to simply account for the -10 pixel left shift) the image appears "too tall", faces appear distended --- things just "look" slightly distorted.

Are there other ways to correct the video positioning? What is the ideal horizontal/vertical display sizing when using PVR 150 MCE cards?

[ingesol]

When watching recordings on my TV (PAL), The image has a 2 cm high black bar at the bottom on my 21" TV. I don't know if this is because the image is positioned too high, or if the format is wrong. Is this maybe related to the problem mentioned here? And can my problem be solved by adjusting some position settings?

[jedbob52]

If you are using overlay, there are usually controls in the video driver for adjusting positioning.

Another possibility - in GB-PVR's config.xml file, there are some settings for overscan adjustment - HorizontalOffset, VerticalOffset, HorizontalZoom, and VerticalZoom. If you like the position of the main menus and such, adjusting these values leaves that portion of the display alone, and only affects video playback. So, in your case, you could maybe try increasing the HorizontalZoom, which would cause the video image to stretch wider and fill more of the screen - but it could potentially cause the distortion you mentioned also. Anyhow - just another thing to try.

[reven]

you also could try adjusting the <AspectRatio1>x,y,w,h</AspectRatio1> tag, change the x, and width. 1.0 = 100% 0.05 =0.05% etc. so try something like
<AspectRatio1>-0.05,0,1.10,1.0</AspectRatio1>

[jsteele]

Thanks to all. Almost too many options :-)