[mythtv-users] Auto-expanding SD programs on HDTV?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Jan 16 04:07:04 UTC 2012


On 1/14/2012 15:18, TJ Harris wrote:
> Back when I had a mix of SD and HD stations, I think I had MythTV set
> to auto-expand the SD programs to my preferred zoom settings.   Now
> that all of my stations are HD, I seem to have forgotten the right
> setting.   The Big Ten Network is only SD on my comcast service, and
> when I watch programs from that channel, they are by default shown in
> window-boxed mode, with black bars all around, and I need to zoom it
> by hitting "w" which is not mapped on my remote.

Assuming you're using software decoding, MythTV will automatically 
detect these borders and scale as it deems necessary.


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