[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] Strange DVB/DVD scaling problem

[Damon Searle]

oops... Both are using the closed source nvidia driver (4363)

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Damon Searle
> Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2003 6:01 PM
> To: Mythtv-Users
> Subject: [mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] Strange DVB/DVD scaling problem
>
>
> 	I've just set up a new Myth frontend with slightly
> different specs to my
> main box, however I'm getting a strange scaling problem in both Myth and
> MPlayer on the new frontend. When I play a 16:9 mpeg2 (DVB or DVD) file it
> appears as if the image has been scaled to fill the entire
> screen, then the
> top and bottom cut off. Widescreen xvid files are fine in MPlayer. My main
> box is running RedHat 9, the new one is running Fedora Core 1,
> with most of
> the packages from X up installed via apt-get from ATrpms. MPlayer is a
> binary rpm install, Myth (latest CVS) is compiled from source. I know this
> was a problem with the zooming code in myth at one stage, but it doesn't
> seem to by a Myth problem because MPlayer is doing it too. Any ideas whats
> going on?
>
> Specs:
>
> Main Backend/Frontend:
> Celeron 800
> nvidia Geforce 2MX (with binary driver)
> RedHat 9
>
> New Frontend:
> Celeron 500

 nvidia TNT2 MX (with binary driver)

> Fedora Core 1
>
> Both running Mythtv CVS versions within a few hours of each others.
>
> thanks,
> 	Damon Searle
>
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