[mythtv-users] Can't see whole picture on playback or live TV

[ffrr]

Nick wrote:

>On 04/11/05, ffrr <ffrr at tpg.com.au> wrote:
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>>Initially, the bottom 10% or more is missing, a bit too much to ignore.
>>I tried adjusting the overscan/underscan in the playback setup section,
>>but it doesn't seem to do what I expected. When I set it to about 10%,
>>the top and bottom 5% or more of the picture are missing.  In other
>>words, making the overscan positive, makes the missing bits symetrical
>>but doesn't really get me to see any more.
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>>I should mention that this is a widescreen picture I am looking at, on a
>>4:3 TV.  So there is ample room (black space) above and below the
>>picture on the actual TV screen.  I just can't get it to show it.
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>Are you able to adjust the overscan settings in your video card setup
>(aside from mythfrontend)? Making the adjustments in your xorg.conf
>may help. 
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OK, I will research how to do this. I don't believe I have edited 
xorg.conf directly before. I just took a quick look and didn't see any 
overscan settings mentioned.  Are there commands to add, or do you mean 
I should adjust the modeline (something else I haven't tried before).

Actually I am confused about what controls what here, because I had an 
idea that a file called XF86Config-4 or something like that, defined how 
the X system worked.


>Do you have any problems viewing the desktop, or is this
>just limited to video playback in MythTV?
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>Nick
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The desktop, and indeed myth's own GUI seems OK.  It seems to be just 
the actual video playback.