[mythtv-users] TV/Recordings has two vertical borders

[Alex Butcher]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, mat wrote:

> I have a strange request/problem.
>
> I'm (just for the hell of it) trying to run a MythTV frontend on my arcade
> machine. Strange.
>
> I'm using debian etch (base install). I've installed myhtv from the
> repositories. I'm using fbdev to run X.
>
> It all works fine except that the aspect ratio for the TV/Recordings is
> wrong: There are two black bars either side of the picture!!!
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm using a strange resoution, my
> modeline in xorg is:
>
> Modeline "776x276x52.15"  14.616000  776 792 872 928  276 281 284 302
> -HSynch -VSynch
>
> Can anyone help me please?

PAL DVB-T's native resolution is 720 (or 704) by 576, interlaced, 50Hz. You
really want to be running a modeline as close to that as your card and
monitor can manage.

MythTV probably thinks you have a ~8:3 or ~32:9 display and is scaling
accordingly.

> Thanks,
> Mat

Best Regards,
Alex.