[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #9571: MythBuntu theme problem

[John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk]

On 12/02/11 23:09, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> John,
>
> Are you running with Mythbuntu theme in a 4:3 display (as is shown in
> your screenshots)?  If so, it is expected that text items will not line
> up properly.  That they seemed to be closer to correct before was only
> "lucky happenstance."  :)  When a 16:9 theme is displayed at 16:9, text
> should generally fit properly (assuming no bugs in the theme)--with the
> exception being some "multiline" text areas (since we don't have
> multiline support, yet).

Hi Mike,

Although the screenshots look 4:3, my screen is physically 16:9. The 
screen is a widescreen CRT and I connect to it via a VGA->SCART adapter. 
I am outputting a 720x576 pixel resolution, which I guess would normally 
be 4:3 (and which is why I guess the screenshots look like that), but 
the circuitry in the TV widens the picture to fill the 16:9 screen. If I 
had taken the screenshots with a camera rather than using "scrot", you 
would have seen how they really look to me.

Why 720x576? I chose it because it is the "native" resolution for PAL 
DVDs and PAL DVB-T broadcasts (including 16:9 DVDs and broadcasts), and 
I didn't want to tax the hardware/software by making it do any scaling. 
I realise that I can have a different resolution for the GUI and 
playback, but wanted to keep things simple.

Most things in the GUI and when playing back recordings look correct - 
e.g. circular things look circular, so I'm pretty sure I have things 
configured correctly, but I just have this problem with (some) text now 
being truncated earlier than the width of the space it can fit into. 
Still, if it turns out I do not have things configured correctly, then 
feel free to bump me to mythtv-users, as this isn't really a development 
discussion I'm sure.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T