[mythtv-users] mplayer resolution wrong on TV

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 05:33:54 UTC 2007


try using -monitoraspect 16:9 or -monitoraspect 4:3, which ever is correct
for you.

Mitchell

On 4/6/07, Tom Weichmann <tomcw at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I started using MythTV on my PC and I have an icon that just runs
> MythFrontend.  Recently, I put a couple of hols through the wall and ran
> TV
> out and audio to my TV which happens to be on the other side of my
> wall.  So
> I created a small script on my box that turns on TV out and starts
> mythfrontend at the proper resolution for TV out.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable 0
>
> nvtv -r 768,576 -s Large -C SVIDEO -t -S NTSC
>
> mythfrontend -nw --geometry 760x576+10+0
>
> nvtv -r 1024,768 -s small -m -S NTSC
>
> dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable 1
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The problem I have is that when I just start mythfrontend on my PC
> everything
> is fine, but when I change to the TV out, everything works fine except for
> mplayer when I am playing a movie from mythvideo.  I see that you can set
> mplayer arguements in the settings menu, but I tried adding -x 760 -y 576
> to
> the default arguements, but that didn't work.  The video was the right
> size
> to fit the screen, but the 16x9 video was distorted to fit this window.
>
> How do others handle starting on both PC and TV out?  Does anyone know how
> to
> get the mplayer window to size correctly?
>
> SuSE 10.2
> MythTV 0.20
> Mplayer 1.0 rc1
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Weichmann
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