So I have an AverTV Stereo TV Tuner card (the bttv driver works fine for it). It is sitting inside: Debian 3.1_r2, PIII-600Mhz, 256MB RAM, 8MB nVidia TNT2 M64. 17" NEC MultiSync E700. I want to *watch* TV, I have no interest in using this setup to *record* TV.
I have xawtv installed (I've tried tvtime too) and I'd like to get a fullscreen which gives me the largest possible TV picture. I'm trying to replace an old 13" TV which has a fading picture, and I thought "gee, why spend money when you have all this computer equipment lying around?"
The problem is that the TV picture on the 17" monitor is coming in at about 10" diagonally, which is one inch diagonally smaller than the approx 11" diagonal picture size on the 13" TV. While it is neat to have a PC set up to be the TV, radio, and jukebox (and once I get HelixPlayer running, a streaming video player too), I was hoping for a picture a couple diagonal inches longer than the old TV.
I've been googling for about an hour and all I can come up with is "xawtv config files for PVRs" without an explanation of what the changes do, and people who have asked the same question I'm asking, without getting a response.
Has anyone else had a similar problem and been able to make their TV application give you a real fullscreen? I'm getting tired of the 2" black border around the "fullscreen" TV picture.
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