Re: PVRINPUT plugin and "black/cinema bars"

["Simon Baxter" <linuxtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Found the original hack (attached).

I additionally made some changes, which I can't find, to add delays between 
channel numbers as my STB needed "1 2 3" rather than "123" if you get what I 
mean.

Changes were in redremote.c and something along the lines of:

void cRedRemote::Tune(int channel)
{
   char      buf[10];
   sprintf(buf,"%d",channel);
   log(1,"Setting digibox to channel %d",channel);
    char *p = buf;

/* SBB Fudge
*/
char txt2[strlen(buf) * 2];
       int i = 0;
       int j = 0;
       while (i < strlen(buf) - 1) {
               txt2[j] = buf[i];
               i++;
               j++;
               txt2[j] = ' ';
               j++;
       }
       txt2[j] = buf[i];
       j++;
       txt2[j] = '\0';

log(0,"SBB Channel Produced by Fudge '%s'",txt2);

       Send(txt2);
<snip>


Cheers
Simon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Baxter" <linuxtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "VDR Mailing List" <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:19 PM
Subject: Re:  PVRINPUT plugin and "black/cinema bars"


> > you should upgrade to our new pvrinput version:
> > http://projects.vdr-developer.org/attachments/download/288/vdr-
> > pvrinput-2010-04-14.tgz
> > see 
> > http://projects.vdr-developer.org/repositories/entry/plg-pvrinput/HISTORY
> >
> > I am pretty sure that your TV station broadcasts analogue TV not 
> > anamorphic,
> > which means it "delivers" the black bars to prevent the aspect  ratio of 
> > a
> > 16:9 content.
>
> You're right - have checked on an analog input to the TV directly and the 
> bars are there, being sent by the service provider.  Damn!
>
>
> > Using the full screen for 16:9 content would result in "egg heads".  We 
> > call
> > this anamorphic. A 16:9 TV would stretch this; a 4:3 TV screen would need 
> > to
> > scale it down (generating the needed bars).
> > At least in Germany analogue broadcastings are never anamorphic.
> > I gues you are using the extern inputs to supply video from a digital
> > receiver? Then it could be anamorphic of course. You would need to tell 
> > your
> > digibox that you have a 16:9 TV.
>
> Nope, am using the tuner on-board in the PVR-500.
>
> > Unfortunately there is no way to detect the incoming signal (Tuner or 
> > extern).
> > Therefore it is not possible to automatically choose the right setting.
> >
> > > Any ideas how to remove these?
> > The driver does not support clipping/cropping. We will always encode the 
> > whole
> > capture size. If there is already a bar, it will also be in the encoded
> > stream. You could try to use the zoom mode of your TV.
>
> This doesn't work either, as the "PC input" setting on my Sony Bravia 
> doesn't allow zooming.
>
> I guess I'm stuck with the bars, unless someone can suggest how to crop in 
> VDR or on the ivtv driver?
>
>
> > > Plugin setup is as follows:
> > > pvrinput.BackupHack = 0
> > > pvrinput.BackupInterval = 30
> > > pvrinput.EnableDigibox = 1
> > > pvrinput.FastChannelChange = 1
> > > pvrinput.RedRemoteDevice = /dev/ledxmit
> >
> > These setup items have never been in any pvrinput version, so I gues you 
> > made
> > patches. Could you provide them to me?
>
> I'm not actually using these settings now, but was when I was using the 
> analog output from my cable STB and needed PVRINPUT to change the channel 
> using an IR transmitter.
>
> Sorry, but I'm going to have to go through some backups to get this hack - 
> will get back to you....
>
>
> Simon
>
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