Problem displaying some videos - only seeing about 75% of screen

[melluap]

On a couple of video files viewed under media center, the media extender "zooms" in on the center, and the outer 25% is truncated. Place shifter works fine, the problem is only seen on the media extender. I have tried different encoding schemes for the video files (originally DIVX), no difference. This is only a couple of videos, the majority all play fine. I tried the complimentary "change the source aspect" with no luck - TV is a widescreen. Also tried another TV, same effect.

Problem was seen on 6.1 and is still seen on 6.2.

Anybody else seen this? Couldn't find anything on the forums.

[jtodap]

I have the same problem with my Wireless Media MVP zooming in to my media files. The widescreen files are most obvious as the words can get clipped off, but even the TV tuner files are zoomed more than they should be. I've tried several methods in an effort to fix it to no avail.

Modifying the aspect ratio also does not help (4:3, by the way).

I've tried reencoding the video using a non-sage transcoder and it will not shrink the video to fit the screen width.

I know that the UI overscan is different than the video overscan. Modifying the UI overscan does not affect the result.

I tried messing around with the client properties files. I noticed that my overscan correction for the UI shrunk the image by about 90%.
ui/ui_overscan_correction_offset_x=40
ui/ui_overscan_correction_offset_y=21
ui/ui_overscan_correction_perct_height=0.9070012
ui/ui_overscan_correction_perct_width=0.8830001
So I tried to make a proportionate adjustement for the video by adding settings that I found online in a frankenstein manner to the properties file.
videoframe/aspect_ratio_mode=0
videoframe/aspect_ratio_mode/0/video_zoom_x=0.9070012
videoframe/aspect_ratio_mode/0/video_zoom_y=0.8830001
After rebooting Sage and the MVP, this had zero impact.

As a last ditch effort, I installed Hauppauge's media player server (and disabled Sage). While it displayed the full width, it had a poor use of the screen, making the image even smaller than need be. Clearly the size can be adjusted, but SageTV is not doing it.

What I have typed here is pretty much the limit of my understanding. I only picked this up in a couple of hours. I have found a couple of examples where people ask about a problem similar to this, but no examples on the forums where they actually solve it. The solution is typically to adjust the aspect ratio or overscan settings, which as I said before, doesn't appear to apply to the video stream.

I'm running version 6.3.5 of Sage, but my last version was 6.1 and the same "zoom" occurred in that version as well.

[blade]

I've noticed the same thing when playing back HD recordings made with my HDHomeRun. Half of the ABC logo located in the right hand corner is cut off when viewing via the HD extender. To get the same result with the PC client I have to increase the horizontal stretch to roughly 120%. I filed a bug report a few minutes ago.