[vdr] Re: Black Border on BBC TV sport transmissions

[Laurence Abbott <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:22, Richard Walker wrote:

> For no good reason, the BBC and five have their DVB-T output always
> set to 16:9.  If there is any 4:3 material, they 'pillar-box' it, and
> use an AFD to indicate that it's really 4:3.  Of course, you lose
> resolution by doing this, as the black bars take up pixels.

And I end up with a big black border round it!

> On DVB-S, the BBC and five manage with the standard 4:3 and 16:9
> signals, so I don't understand why they felt the need to do their
> own thing for DVB-T - particularly as ITV and Channel 4 cope.

It does seem a bit of a strange setup!

> If you use the Dxr3 plugin, there is a patch set for the Dxr3 driver
> and VDR plugin which recognises the AFDs, and zooms the picture
> accordingly.

Oooooo....where can I get these patches because this is the setup I'm
using!

Eagerly awaiting the new dxr3 plugin...

Cheers,

Laz