[mythtv-users] Playback scaling issues with 0.22-fixes

[Robin Hill]

On Sat Oct 24, 2009 at 04:51:53PM +0200, Jonatan wrote:

> Robin Hill wrote:
> > I've just upgraded to the 0.22-fixes branch and have run into some
> > issues with playback.
> > 
> > I run the GUI at 960x540 (which is the highest resolution I've found a
> > working modeline for my TV for), then switch to 720x576 for watching
> > recordings (PAL TV, so there should be no scaling).  This worked fine
> > with 0.21 but I now only get part of the picture - it's been scaled up
> > (probably to 960 pixels), then  the right-hand side is cut off.
> > 
> > I found an old post reporting the same (or a similar) issue
> > (http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/mythtv-users@mythtv.org/msg99689.html)
> > but that didn't seem to reach any resolution (he switched to VDPAU which
> > didn't have the same issue).  He also didn't see the issue with LiveTV,
> > whereas I get the same problem with both LiveTV and recordings.
> 
> I also see the behavior of scaling to the virtual size when using Xv
> output.  I have tracked it down to be due to the call
> mainWindow->setGeometry(player_bounds) near the end of
> TV::HandleStateChange.  This eventually ends up calling
> VideoOutputXv::WindowResized which causes the mentioned behavior.
> 
> It works fine for OpenGL output since the WindowResized member
> function hasn't been implemented. A quick fix would be to comment out
> the contents of VideoOutputXv::WindowResized. That worked for me.
> 
Many thanks - I've done the same here & it's all working perfectly now.

Cheers,
    Robin
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