pyTivo Discussion Forum

[crossbred900]

My tv has a bad overscan problem that is not adjustable. Is it possible for pytivo to add a border or something around the video so i can see the whole thing?

[wmcbrine]

http://pytivo.krkeegan.com/pad-the-video-output-for-tvs-that-do-not-disp-a-full-image-t104.html

This probably needs to be reworked for the current code. Actually, I'd like to get something in there as standard. But right now, no, sorry.

[crossbred900]

At times like this I wish I understood code. My LCD TV cuts off the picture on all sides, but mostly the bottom, which makes watching videos with subtitles hard. Hopefully it eventually gets worked in.

[rdian06]

[crossbred900]

I have, it is a known issue with my model that is not adjustable.

[rgr]

I tinkered with the code several versions back and got a padding that worked, but didn't want to keep trying to update the code for my own uses and also wanted to get the current pyTivo version working.

So I added the following line to the pyTivo.conf file in the [Server] section:

ffmpeg_pram = -threads 2 -padtop 14 -padbottom 12 -padright 16 -padleft 24 -padcolor 000000

It sets the padding top, bottom, right and left and sets the pad color to black. The threads setting is just for the number of threads used by ffmpeg and isn't relevant to the padding.

I had to tinker for a few iterations to get the settings right for my tv. Try it and tinker a bit.

[crossbred900]

Doing that worked great, thanks. And if anyone is curious, I ended up with this:

-threads 2 -padtop 26 -padbottom 24 -padright 34 -padleft 48 -padcolor 000000

edit:

Of course as soon as I thought I was done, I realized my HD videos need different padding. So I just moved my first line to the SD Tivo section and made a new one for the HD. This is what I got:

-threads 2 -padtop 40 -padbottom 40 -padright 72 -padleft 72 -padcolor 000000

[rgr]

Good to hear. I hadn't considered having different padding for SD and HD. Off to experiment further!