[mythtv] playback window too big

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 27 January 2003 02:00 pm, Jason Ferrara wrote:
> I just installed mythtv-0.7, and everything works great except....
>
> I have my X server running at 640x480. When I go to watch tv or
> playback a recording, the window that mythtv opens for video playback
> is 705x528, so the bottom and right of the picture get cut off. I
> checked this using xwininfo to get the dimensions of the playback
> window. This isn't an overscan problem. Its that the window is larger
> than the X screen size.
>
> Does anyone else have this problem? What controls the size of the
> playback window? As an experiment I set X to run at 800x600, and then
> the playback window opened at something slightly larger than 800x600,
> again cutting off the bottom and right.

It's by design.  I've got things setup here so that an 800x600 window fills to 
the edges of my TV pretty close to exactly.  If the video window only 
displays to 800x600, then, it's doing absolutely no overscan, which looks 
weird.  So, in 0.7, it compensates for that.  In CVS, the amount of overscan 
compensation is configurable.

Isaac