Zoom on capture device

[rali]

First of all, thanks for a great piece of software.

Would it be possible to allow the user to zoom/crop the image from the capture device? My PVR350 gives me a white line on either side on my image that's very distracting (I don't think it's the card - I suspect it's a problem with the signal from my cable box). Both Got TV and ShowShifter allow me to crop the output so that these lines don't show.

[sub]

Are you talking about at capture time or playback? Either way, I dont think the hardware supports any cropping, but I'll have another look when I get the time.

[Guest]

During playback... If you have the "Got TV" package, what I'm hoping for is something like the "zoom controls" (Alt+Z during playback). I've set my "crop" to +3,+3, and Got TV remembers the setting between invocations.

I currently use GB-PVR for recording, and Got TV for playback of these recordings / live TV (even though I prefer GB-PVRs interface for live TV).

I'm really impressed with the software thus far... my XMLTV files imported without a problem, and it was very easy to set up my USB-UIRT to change the channels on my cable box (and I didn't even have to fiddle with Girder).

[sub]

Hi again rali,

GB-PVR will eventually have aspect ratios and zooming, but unfortunately it may only be available with software renders VMR/Overlay (same as Got TV). Unfortunately the PVR 350 only allows me to shrink the picture, but not zoom in. It seems to be a limitation of the hardware.

Usually the very edges of the picture arn't visible because of the overscan nature of television.

[rali]

Thanks for the reply.

I'm currently working around the problem by adjusting my video card settings - I can't see the Windows taskbar any more, but I can live with that for now .

I probably should put this in a separate post in the Support forum, but are FF and REW supposed to work when watching live TV? Pause works fine, but I can't get FF and REW to work (either from my PVR350's bundled remote, or using the keyboard shortcuts).

The mini guide that comes up while watching live TV is a really nice touch, BTW.

[sub]

No, unfortunately FF/RW are working in live TV mode yet. It is a high priority for me, but I've not had time to implement it yet.