[mythtv-users] MythArchive - Aspect Ratio

[Paul Harrison]

Christopher Maines wrote:
> I (finally) have a working MythArchive from svn revision 10493. Apart 
> from some strangeness about the menu behavior, everything works okay. 
> However, I can't set the aspect ratio of either the menus or the 
> recorded shows to my recorded 4:3 aspect ratio. Since I use xine for 
> playback, I can manually set the aspect ratios for the recorded shows 
> to 4:3, but all the images in the menus are stretched out in letterbox 
> format. Unfortunately I can't change anything on my "ancient" 
> standalone DVD player, so everything there is letterboxed. There also 
> don't seem to be any selectable mytharchive themes (with images) that 
> are 4:3. Is there any way around this?
>
> P.S. - The strange menu behavior is that once I select a recording 
> from the main menu, the menu changes to that recording alone, but I 
> can't move past this screen. After a few seconds, the menu changes to 
> the chapters in the recording and all is well after that. I'm using 
> the G.A.N.T. theme.
>   
Could you please try the latest svn. It allows you to choose what the 
aspect ratio of the menus should be. Not sure if it completely fixes 
things so your feed back would be appreciated.

Paul H.