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Title: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: dingo35 on November 20, 2013, 14:42:22
The subject says it all : 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV.

Settings are 4:3 TV  and letterbox.

Title: Re: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: MartenR on November 21, 2013, 07:12:21
Not enough details...
How is your TV connected..., what is the resolution etc..

Marten
Title: Re: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: dingo35 on November 21, 2013, 07:30:09
Hi Marten,

Sorry for that; my TV is connected through composite/PAL , so I guess resolution is standard PAL (768 x 572, some say 762 x 572)??

Best regards, Hans.
Title: Re: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: winschrott on November 21, 2013, 11:19:49
Hi Marten,

had this problem, too. With my old TFT connected to the rasp. It was a 17" TFT, 1280x1024. 16:9 came out with black borders top/bottom, 4:3 with black borders all around. In settings, a 4:3-screen was defined. Can test it again if you want,  the old TFT is beside the actual 23" ;-) Both connected through HDMI -> DVI cable...

CU
winschrott
Title: Re: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: MartenR on November 22, 2013, 07:36:32
I have looked in the code and remebered.
This is not implemented. Currently, there are only 16:9 tvs supported.
(Reason was a poor api for analog tv output of the raspberry pi and tv mode switching).

Since I have no 4:3 tv, I am not implementing this (no motivation for the poor composite quality of the raspberry, mvp is much better).
If someone, wants to provide a good patch to updateMode in videoomx. He is free to do so.

Marten
Title: Re: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: svalavuo on November 28, 2013, 08:52:30
Hi!

I'm not sure if this is what my RPi is suffering, but in one channel (viisi in finland) picture is cut from top and bottom. So for example it loses subtitles :)
Whole screen is used, but top and bottom are cut off.
My TV is 16:9 and I'm using HDMI.
Where can I get some helpful log to examine what is happening or to send someone (Marten?) who understands what's happening...
I guess this is something to do with channel provider. As far as I know, this happens only with that one channel (or at least I haven't watched any other channel suffering from this). Maybe they don't provide all information needed... Although VDR shows that channel correctly.

- Samuli
Title: Re: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: MartenR on November 29, 2013, 07:04:29
In order to understand it, I need a small test video.

Marten
Title: Re: Bug report - 4:3 content shown in letterbox on 4:3 TV
Post by: sirwio on December 31, 2013, 14:38:22
I got kind of the same results prior to commit df256d9401cf168b7e336522f6295b1ac91450c0 16:9 SD channels with the "16:9 on 4:3 display mode" set to "Chop sides"

Please check forum thread http://forum.loggytronic.com/index.php?topic=730.0


Quote from: svalavuo on November 28, 2013, 08:52:30
Hi!

I'm not sure if this is what my RPi is suffering, but in one channel (viisi in finland) picture is cut from top and bottom. So for example it loses subtitles :)
Whole screen is used, but top and bottom are cut off.
My TV is 16:9 and I'm using HDMI.
Where can I get some helpful log to examine what is happening or to send someone (Marten?) who understands what's happening...
I guess this is something to do with channel provider. As far as I know, this happens only with that one channel (or at least I haven't watched any other channel suffering from this). Maybe they don't provide all information needed... Although VDR shows that channel correctly.

- Samuli