2014-03-13, 07:33 PM
Hello,
I have a monitor with max resolution 1680x1050 (which was a pretty common res when I bought the monitor like 8 years ago, and IIRC, the 1050 is the vertical resolution, which corresponds to the value in HDTV resolutions like 720 or 1080). Of course, modern HDTV is usually 1080i resolution (or sometimes 720p).
Right now, NextPVR shows video on my screen by putting small black bars above and below the video and scaling the video, so that I basically see the whole image, BUT because of scaling, of course, I'm actually losing some resolution.
Is there a video display mode which will just center the image on my monitor both vertically and horizontally, and display it at native resolution, allowing a little bit at the top and sides of the image to be "chopped off" since my screen isn't quite as high resolution as the HD standard, but that means that the remaining pixels do not get scaled at all? I think that would give me the best overall picture quality, since no scaling is being done, wouldn't it? If I use that display mode, will NextPVR, I hope, still record the full resolution, but just chop off the edges as it displays the video on that monitor?
With the current scaling that is happening, is NPVR recording the full native resolution, and just doing the scaling during display? (I think this is the case?)
I have a monitor with max resolution 1680x1050 (which was a pretty common res when I bought the monitor like 8 years ago, and IIRC, the 1050 is the vertical resolution, which corresponds to the value in HDTV resolutions like 720 or 1080). Of course, modern HDTV is usually 1080i resolution (or sometimes 720p).
Right now, NextPVR shows video on my screen by putting small black bars above and below the video and scaling the video, so that I basically see the whole image, BUT because of scaling, of course, I'm actually losing some resolution.
Is there a video display mode which will just center the image on my monitor both vertically and horizontally, and display it at native resolution, allowing a little bit at the top and sides of the image to be "chopped off" since my screen isn't quite as high resolution as the HD standard, but that means that the remaining pixels do not get scaled at all? I think that would give me the best overall picture quality, since no scaling is being done, wouldn't it? If I use that display mode, will NextPVR, I hope, still record the full resolution, but just chop off the edges as it displays the video on that monitor?
With the current scaling that is happening, is NPVR recording the full native resolution, and just doing the scaling during display? (I think this is the case?)
