Looking for suggestions for viewing on PC without overscan.

jwarner · Post by **jwarner** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:27 pm

Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with overscan when viewing their MPEG's and DVD's on their PC?

I have all my old 8mm tapes captured to MPEG-2's as input to my video editing. Once edited and burned to DVD, the DVD's view fine on my TV since the overscan area is hidden.

When I view these same DVD's or my captured MPEG's on my PC, however, as would be expected, the bottom few lines are garbled.

I'm using WMP as my viewer with the NVIDIA MPEG/DVD decoder installed. It works great and has a ZOOM feature which would likely solve the problem but that feature does not seem to work (may not be implimented yet?).

Since I want to be able to view these on my PC as well as my TV (it may be a looong time before I get them all edited and onto DVD's), it would be nice to be able to do so WITHOUT seeing the overscan.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

MtCastle · Post by **MtCastle** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:44 pm

jwarner,
Check if this thread is applicable.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... ight=#3291
Of course this only works when the video is rendered and burned to the DVD and not after the fact.
Gary M

jwarner · Post by **jwarner** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:53 pm

Gary - thanks for the links. I did see those threads (in fact, participated in one of them).

Unfortunately, neither provided a workable solution...

Since using an overlay would mean re-rendering 70gb's of video, that's not feasible. The problem isn't really in having the overscan area included in the files, I just don't want to see them.

All I really need is a player (or plug-in for WMP), that either drops the bottom few lines or allows zooming in slightly so those lines don't show when viewing on my PC.

MtCastle · Post by **MtCastle** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:51 pm

John,
OK. Doesn't seem like a lot of people are jumping on this one!

gm

jwarner · Post by **jwarner** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:58 pm

Apparently not of great general interest? Or, perhaps nobody has a good solution?

Has anyone tried this player:

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/WinDVD_Profile.jsp

Will it zoom or crop during playback?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:32 pm

FWIW, Nero ShowTime media player has a zoom function -- in the current version (latest update 1.4.0.27), you click on the extreme left-hand arrow to get the control module to show the number selection board (for chapters etc). But on that bit that slides out, there is a magnifying glass icon with which you can control the zoom -- e.g. selecting either a small bit of the main screen, which then comes up zoomed on the whole screen. To get rid of your overscan part, you could simply select most of the screen but not the overscan bit at the bottom, and then 'zoom' the main area. I think WinDVD has a similar feature. As far as WMP is concerned, I have not yet found a plug-in which specifically lists a zoom feature in it, though I suspect one must be out there somewhere...

jwarner · Post by **jwarner** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:20 pm

Nero ShowTime did the trick!

Thanks for the tip.