[mythtv-users] HDPVR HD Recordings are in 4:3 format

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Fri Dec 13 09:39:17 UTC 2013


On Thursday 12 Dec 2013 22:07:20 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 07:15 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> > On 12/12/13 18:24, Scott Smith wrote:
> >> I have this problem or one simiar to it. All my HD content appears to be
> >> in a 4:3 aspect. It is compressed horizontally. Forcing the aspect can
> >> make it better.
> >> Im not sure what changed.
> >> 
> >> But i did notice the output from the frontend is reporting the desktop
> >> as 2560x1080. Maybe the frontend thinks it needs to compress the
> >> 1920x1080 into this?
> > 
> > If your monitor is reporting its dimensions accurately, that should not
> > matter.
> 
> Except, based on that screen resolution, I'd bet that Scott is using X
> configured with Xinerama (or one of its ilk, such as TwinView) enabled
> (even if he thinks there's only one monitor) /and/ using an old version
> of MythTV (not 0.27).

We've never had this problem with TwinView, I didn't think it was a problem 
with xinerama either but it's been so long since I last tried it that I'm 
can't be certain.
-- 
Stuart Morgan
MythTV


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