[mythtv-users] Stretched video with internal player

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/19/2012 11:06 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote:
> When using the internal player I always get the video 
> stretched vertically and I can't find the setting where I can turn 
> this off. There is "Fill" setting that is already set to 0 and have no 
> idea where else to look. I would like to have black bars on top and 
> the bottom so my video keeps the w/h ratio. I'm on MythTV .23-fixes.

Assuming you haven't specified an aspect ratio override (which tells 
MythTV to pretend that your video is a different aspect), simply setting 
X to have a proper aspect will allow MythTV to properly size the video 
based on how the stream says it should be displayed

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Display_Size
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Specifying_DPI_for_NVIDIA_Cards

Mike