Program information cropped with overscan

[yunosh]

If the TV does overscanning (and you don't scale the video output, which would be a bad idea), the information OSD for a running program/recording gets cropped at the edge of the screen.

[hambre]

But this not a problem specific to this theme, is it? How does it work/look like on other themes?

[yunosh]

No, it's not. Themes that work well have have some border around or some padding inside the OSD.

[hambre]

All other windows of the theme are probably also affected. Almost all of them have information in a header bar (date, title, time) at the top of the screen and a footer bar at the bottom. Changing that means redesigning the whole theme, which I don't want to do.

[yunosh]

I don't consider this necessary. I have the MythTV UI rendered so that it compensates for the overscan. It fits exactly on the screen. But you cannot do this with video without e.g. losing the capability to use the TV's deinterlacing. Among other things. That's why the OSD is different.