> When I switch to fullscreen mode, however, I get a thick black border > around the image, something I hoped could be avoided through the use > of hardware scaling. My graphics card/driver combination (see notes > below) does support hardware scaling, which I frequently use for > fullscreen MPEG playback via SMPEG and SDL. Video overlay scaling and MPEG playback scaling are different. For video scaling the gfx driver has to export the scaling interface for other X-Server modules, so v4l can use it to setup the hw overlay for video. Not all drivers do this... > Furthermore, debug output > from xawtv agrees that hardware scaling is available, so why is it not > used for fullscreen mode? xawtv uses that in grabdisplay mode, i.e. if the hardware doesn't support overlay (usb webcams, whatever). Try "xawtv -noxv", then turn on grabdisplay manually, then fullscreen. > I also tried to convince xawtv to use a different screen resolution > for fullscreen TV by setting "fullscreen = 800 x 600" in the general > section of the xawtv configuration file, but it didn't work, even > though I do have this resolution enabled in my X config and I ran > xawtv with the "-vm" switch. Hmm, no vidmode extention available? > The "toggle-mouse = on" setting didn't > take either. Why? Works fine here. A few older versions take numbers only, not "on/off"... > xawtv 3.22 ... but this one should work fine. Gerd -- Protecting the children is a good way to get a lot of adults who cant stand up for themselves. -- seen in some sig on /.
