PLEASE HELP ME!!! 

I've set up Vader's Transcoder 2.2 and it's working great :) I've managed to get the synopsis info and everything to pop up, and the audio/video sync is fine... there isn't even any lag! 

My two problems are as follows (and the second one I'm willing to deal with, if I can get the first one resolved...)

 1. I have a small black border around my videos during playback on ALL videos, not just ones in my dvd library.  I've tried altering the margin settings in the registry, which seems to effect only the mce interface, but not the video playback.  The aggravating thing is, I had it all fixed and know there is a solution, but can't seem to recreate it.  Things went wrong when I discovered my second problem:

2.  When there is a slow pan or smooth motion, I get a slight jitter on my tv. So a dramatic zoom or similar becomes a wild seizure-inducing wtf fest (maybe I'm exaggerating.) I get the feeling this can be solved in the arguments sent to mencoder regarding frame-rate, but I have yet to find a solution.

 

My tv is connected via hdmi to the xbox, and the mce interface itself has no border around it.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

deadleafhotel:

PLEASE HELP ME!!! 

I've set up Vader's Transcoder 2.2 and it's working great :) I've managed to get the synopsis info and everything to pop up, and the audio/video sync is fine... there isn't even any lag! 

My two problems are as follows (and the second one I'm willing to deal with, if I can get the first one resolved...)

 1. I have a small black border around my videos during playback on ALL videos, not just ones in my dvd library.  I've tried altering the margin settings in the registry, which seems to effect only the mce interface, but not the video playback.  The aggravating thing is, I had it all fixed and know there is a solution, but can't seem to recreate it.  Things went wrong when I discovered my second problem:

2.  When there is a slow pan or smooth motion, I get a slight jitter on my tv. So a dramatic zoom or similar becomes a wild seizure-inducing wtf fest (maybe I'm exaggerating.) I get the feeling this can be solved in the arguments sent to mencoder regarding frame-rate, but I have yet to find a solution.

 

My tv is connected via hdmi to the xbox, and the mce interface itself has no border around it.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

Is the border around all of Media Center, just the videos, or the desktop and videos?

no, the mce interface does not have a border around it.  Only the video content when played on the xbox 360 has a border.

deadleafhotel:

no, the mce interface does not have a border around it.  Only the video content when played on the xbox 360 has a border.

 

 

Sorry, I should have read the post better.  I was thinking it was overscan related but it sounds like a transcoder problem.  I'm not familiar with that program.

 I don't think it's a transcoder issue, as ALL videos (within dvd library and in the video folder... wmv files included) have the black border around them.  Even 4:3 videos have a small border on the top and bottom.

 Ok, I think I've figured it out: After much banging my head against the wall, I found that I had my tv set to "full pixel" mode, which pulls everything in a little bit.  When I was playing the videos back, it was defaulting to a "normal" 16:9 picture.  If I take my tv out of full pixel, I miss like a 16th of an inch from the left and right on a 46 inch screen... So that's fine.

The problem is that now I have to go in and adjust the margin settings for mce to pull everything back in by a few pixels, and now when I'm playing my games, I'm losing about 40 pixels on the left and right and 20 on the top and bottom.... Is there a better fix than this? Maybe vga instead of hdmi? But am I still going to get the best picture quality? 

My forehead is sore from slamming it against the keyboard and wall, please tell me I'm not crazy and this is yet another sweet bit of crap that microsoft has let slip by the qos department.