[mythtv-users] Playing 16:9 recordings on a 4:3 monitor

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/15/2012 03:41 PM, R KANNAN wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I play my 16:9 recordings (or Live TV)  on my 4:3 monitor, the 
> image is stretched vertically to fill the screen I have tried playing 
> around with Zeoom settings under Setup->Video->Playback, 'w' settings 
> when the video is being played or 'Video->Aspect Ratio" in the dynmaic 
> menu from pressing "m" when the video is being played. Nothing seems 
> to help.
>
> xrandr retuns
>
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
> default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    1280x1024       0.0*
>    1024x768        0.0
>    800x600         0.0
>    640x480         0.0
>
> How can this be corrected?
>
> I am using MythTV  0.25.3 + fixes2012  on Mythbuntu12.04.

Your X config is broken.  Please post the output of

xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution

Mike