[mythtv] Aspect Ratio skewed?

[Wendy Seltzer]

At 11:35 PM 7/20/2005 +0200, Martin Moeller wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>Yesterday I checked out the latest SVN and today I got it compiled in between
>recordings. I just got it installed on my two backends and the frontend about
>an hour ago.
>
>The first thing I noticed was a distinctly squashed picture when playing back
>recordings. All my recordings are (or should be) 4:3, but now for some reason
>I have to select 16:9 stretched to get the right layout.
>
>The first time I seemed to loose the OSD, but it has returned now, maybe
>because I went through a lot of settings, maybe not.
>
>I have made examples of these modes available here:
>
>http://www.martinm-76.dk/mythtv/
>
>4-3.jpg and 16-9-stretched.jpg respectively.
>
>After I got the OSD back, it is usable this way, but.... it isn't 16:9
>stretched recordings!!?
>
>I am using linearblend and denoise3d on playback and the Titivillus theme /
>Isthmus OSD.
>
>Has anyone else seen something like this?

I unfortunately have been noticing this as well, for the past few weeks of 
cvs/svn.  I'm using Xinerama/Twinview, and it gets the aspect ratio wrong 
no matter on which screen (LCD or TV) I put the display.  mythfrontend 
reports the correct resolution for both screens.

--Wendy


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