[mythtv-users] HD recording are cropped on osx mythfrontend @1920x1080

[MonkeyPet]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM, David Snider <dsnider at thesniderpad.com> wrote:
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> monkey pet wrote:
>> Hi all, I have connected my macmini to my 1080p TV and running it at
>> the full resolution 1920x1080 at 59.9Hz.  I am seeing that when I play
>> back HD 1080i recordings on the macmini the frontend will enlarge it
>> and therefore cropping the frame (cutting off the edges of the frame
>> from all the sides).  When I play it back using the frontend on my
>> macbook pro, it looks fine.I am not sure if it is a setting or
>> something else.  I am running the 0.21-fixes for osx (intel) using the
>> binaries that were provided.  I have tried to toggle the
>> settings->playback->scaling option and it doesn't seem to do anything
>> for 1080i.  Also tried toggling the zoom from off to full, but it
>> didn't help.  Also tried other options related to the windowing
>> features, but nothing helps.  Anyone have seen this before and can
>> provide me with a workaround?
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> I "think" I had this same issue.  But it was for all recordings, not
> just HD.  I had to go in to my playback settings and change the scale
> settings there.  I had to change them to a non "0" value, for example,
> -25%, and then the video was "properly" shrunk to a small size (lots of
> black around the edges), then, when I set the values back to 0, the
> video was scaled properly.  Very strange.

David's suggestion worked for me.  I think the playback of HD is
smoother aftwards also.

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