[mythtv-users] Playback looks at screensize not at monitor or windowsize

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi dennis,

Friday, June 12, 2015, 3:39:43 PM, you wrote:



> On 06/12/2015 05:24 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> I was further thinking about the difference between monitor and screen
>> in X. Normally in Xinerama you have one screen (and one driver
>> instance) for every monitor. So looking at the X screen for monitor
>> properties like aspect ratio seems OK. But even in the old X
>> definition it isn't OK. Even with one monitor/one screen the screen
>> can be any size, unrelated to the monitor size. It's a virtual size,
>> over which you can pan the monitor as a view screen. So the two are
>> unrelated. Nvidia's step to put the monitors in one screen is a
>> completely logical next step. Only not jet supported by most monitor
>> aware software. But then even Xinerama is only properly supported by
>> a few of Window managers.
>>
>>
> What are you using as the video renderer?   I have a 2 monitor setup (
> 1600x1200 & 1920x1200 ) and typically use mythtv in a window. I have 
> alot of issues when using VDPAU, especially when trying to resize.

> Once I switched to using ffmpeg/xv-blit everything works perfect. I can
> move the window from monitor to monitor,  change size, and even 
> maximizing the window keeps the proper aspect ratios.
> _______________________________________________

I haven't really tried jet, but vdpau seems to work OK. I can move the
window around from screen to screen without problem. OpenGL gives a
segmentation error on quitting. But that's unrelated.
In my mailprogram in Windows7 in vbox I get now and then a floating
point division by zero error, especially when moving between the
monitors.

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