[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

Richard Garnish rabies at meep.org
Thu May 5 14:52:20 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 15:37, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> On 05 May 2005 14:08:57 +0100, Richard Garnish <rabies at meep.org> wrote:
> > Is there a magic option I have not found yet, or does the UI always
> > assume that pixels are square?  If so, then that assumption is never
> > right as long as you are driving a TV at normal PAL or NTSC resolutions
> > - even in 4:3, pixels are not quite square.
> 
> Unless you are using a widescreen theme (of which there's currently
> only one) myth bases the UI sizing around an 800x600 screen and then
> scales from there.  If you're using a wide screen theme it bases
> things on 1280x720 (HDTV 720p) and scales from there.

I've just been doing a bit of digging through the source and it seems like
the name of the theme (ending in "-wide") should affect this, but I do seem
to remember that even using the Minimalist-wide theme the text was still
all wrongly proportioned when scaled to 720x576.  I'm not at home right now
to verify this, though.

Richard



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