[mythtv-users] Responsiveness of zap2it to lineup discrepancies?

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

    > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:29:46 -0400
    > From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

    > On 07/06/2006 12:30 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

    > >Isn't the UI supposed to scale itself?

    > Yes.  It scales itself to the size /you/ specify in the settings for the 
    > /host/ on which it is run.  So, if you SSH to your frontend that's 
    > running at 800x600 and the size is specified as 0,0 (full screen) and 
    > you have an overscan specified, you'd get about what you got...

Err...  I'm ssh'ing to my MBE, which has never had any particular size
specified, because it doesn't have an output device.  My output device
is the PVR-350 on the FE/SBE.

If I don't use -geometry at all and let it take over my entire screen,
it very neatly chops off the blank space & buttons at the bottom
(looks great! no clue it's incomplete...:), and that's presumably
because my computer screen doesn't have the same aspect ratio as
my TV (in fact, it's an SGI 1600SW and is thus wider and shorter
than most programs expect).  This is similar to the 600x400 behavior
I noticed either.  [In all cases except the no-geometry case, I'm
specifying a smaller window than the actual X desktop, of course.]

But I'm still puzzled by this.  Well-behaved X programs should scale
their output to the current geometry, whatever that is, and not
instead inherit geometry from some completely other output device that
might not even be on the same -CPU- as either the X server or the X
client.  I don't know why mythtv-setup doesn't do this by default.

(In other words, mythtv-setup displaying on an X display should honor
the X geometry, not do something wacky because it might be on a TV.
And my -TV- doesn't whack things off the UI, -even though- it
overscans.  It's like the UI, when run under X, is overscanning just
to whack off the edges unless I manually fiddle around with the aspect
ratio in the -geometry argument I'm handing it.  If it's not going to
honor -geometry faithfully, which is it misleadingly accepting it at
all?)

Is this something that's likely to be fixed in the new UI design?

P.S.  If what you're saying is that the UI you get when you run
mythtv-setup under X is the UI it would put up on the FE (-which-
FE? what if I'm ssh'ing from a non-FE to an MBE that isn't a FE
itself?), then does that mean that someone with a 1920x1280 HD
FE who ssh's in from a tiny PDA screen has no way to scale the
output of mythtv-setup so they see more than a tiny porthole in
the middle?  This makes no sense to me at all.