Video Background Color

[mightyt]

Reading through the Sage Customizations doc, I found that changing this from False to True in the Properties file adds a menu item in the Detailed Setup > Advanced menu item in the Sage Setup.

ui/show_video_background_item=true

When selcted in the setup it allows you to modify or selct a new Video Background Color.

Befroe I jack it up. What exactly does this change ??

Thanks, T.

[stanger89]

I think it's the color Sage uses to fill areas not covered by video, like the black bars if you're watching an anamorphic (widescreen) DVD on a 4:3 TV. For example I think you could make it gray so as not to cause burn-in on your TV. Personally I really don't like gray bars so I've never messed with it.

[mightyt]

Originally posted by stanger89
I think it's the color Sage uses to fill areas not covered by video, like the black bars if you're watching an anamorphic (widescreen) DVD on a 4:3 TV. For example I think you could make it gray so as not to cause burn-in on your TV. Personally I really don't like gray bars so I've never messed with it.

Ahhh .... Yep ... I agree ... anything other than back would be more distracting ... Thanks for the explaination ... Of course maybe a bright orange would be nice ....

[mls]

Just as a side note... Plasma screens burn in very easy with even a short time of fixed display.

Don't make much sense though. Ya would think if you're gonna pay $10,000 or more for a really good looking display device like that it wouldn't be designed to self destruct so easily

BTW: For those running on one of those 16:9 displays, there is a setting within SageTV that is supposed to slowly float a 4:3 output back and forth across the screen to help prevent burn in.

Anyone every tried using that? Not sure how annoying that might be with the picture changing positions?

[Opus4]

That's the Video Orbiting Duration in the Advanced section of Detailed Setup -- you can set the time you want it to use, so it shouldn't be too bad if you set it to a slow enough time. I tested it once in a wide window, using a time of .02 seconds... while it didn't actually move that fast, _that_ could get annoying!

- Andy