[mythtv] Aspect Ratio skewed?

Martin Moeller martin at martinm-76.dk
Thu Jul 21 02:00:16 EDT 2005


Thanks Wendy.

I have just verified that indeed it only happens on my Xinerama/TwinView 
configured machine. At least that means my dedicated frontend won't be 
affected, but I really hope a solution will be found for this...

/Martin.

Torsdag den 21. juli 2005 04:19 skrev 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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