Thanks for the explanation. So could you tell me how width these borders are? If I can't exactly know the width then what criteria I should use to cut them? Thanks! Regards, Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Bultje" <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Kevin Liao" <kevinliao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:43 AM Subject: Re: problems with streamer / AVI files > On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 14:07, Kevin Liao wrote: > > I also had the same problem (320x240). Does anyone you know why there are > > these black borders? I found that when I captured with larger size > > (352x240), these black borders were still there! So why do I need to first > > capture with a bigger size then cut with yuvscaler? Thanks a lot! > > Afaik, the black borders are there because TV mostly doesn't show *all* > the lines. This means that the image information transmitted in the > 'frame borders' of the TV signal can't be viewed on a TV anyway, so > they're mostly not being used and thus, they are black. > > Cutting these borders away is the simple solution ;-). > > Ronald >