[mythtv-users] Myth fails to account for my widescreen display (i.e. no black bars)

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:59:03 -0400
Dylan Semler wrote:

> When watching 4:3 content (liveTV or videos via MythVideo), on my widescreen
> laptop, myth stretches them to take up the whole screen.  The "aspect ratio"
> setting is left un-changed and cycling through the options with 'W' does not
> provide a solution with black bars on the side and the proper 4:3 ratio.
> The mythvideo player command is set to:
> 
> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s
> 
> Running this command on the same video from the terminal plays the file in
> the proper aspect ratio of 4:3 so Myth must be doing something weird.
> 
> I find it hard to imagine that this hasn't come up with anyone else though
> but I am running SVN from about a week ago.
> 
> Dylan

Rather annoyingly I cannot get my widescreen TV running X at any 16:9
resolutions, so it is running at 640x480. TO sort mythtv I had to change
some settings that I now do not remember (sorry). To fix mplayer I put
-monitoraspect 16:9 in the mplayer options.

-- 
Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>