[mythtv-users] 16:9 broadcasts on a 16:9 TV give letterbox images

Rich West Rich.West at wesmo.com
Thu Apr 19 04:06:59 UTC 2007


Bart Coninckx wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 23:21, Phil Bridges wrote:
>   
>> On 4/18/07, Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx at telenet.be> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> something funny going on here: I've set Xorg to 16:9 (correct
>>> DisplaySize), set 16:9 for the Life TV recording profile and what I get
>>> is that 4:3 broadcasts are fullscreen, but 16:9 broadcasts are
>>> letterboxed.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>>
>>> thx,
>>>
>>> B.
>>>       
>> What happens if you hit "W" to cycle through the stretch modes?
>>     
>
> I tried all those, but none are good I'm afraid.

What does your xorg.conf file look like?  What do you have your display 
override setting set to (fill? 16:9?)?

-Rich



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