Re: Picture not quite wide enough with bttv driver and ATI TV Wonder

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>I have an ATI TV wonder card (regular, not value) that works fine except
>for one problem -- the picture does not quite fill the width of the
>window when running Xawtv or Zapping. Vertically, the picture fits fine.
>But horizontally, about 5% of the left side and 3% of the right side are
>black. Also, the picture looks slightly squeezed when compared to
>running under Windows. I see the same problem when running full screen
>or not full screen and even when starting xawtv with -noxv. I have tried
>versions 0.96, 0.7.105 and 0.7.100 of the bttv driver and see no
>difference. I have verified that the various bttv versions do load from
>the kernel logs. I am running kernel 2.4.20 on an i815 motherboard. I am
>in the US and am using NTSC. I have tried various tuner configurations
>via insmod with no luck. I suspect that there is some width calculation
>that is slightly off for NTSC. If someone could give me some good ideas
>of where to fiddle in the source, I can try to fix it on my end.

Both NTSC and PAL do not fill the captured line.  For examples, take a
look at the uncropped images during the lower part of the following page:

	http://vidiot.com/SatSlates.html

In other words, there is nothing wrong.

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