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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Thomas,

Sunday, June 14, 2015, 12:13:22 PM, you wrote:

> On 12/06/15 01:00, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi All,
>> 
>>  I recently got a new extra monitor for my workcomputer and was
>>  experimenting with displaying mythtv on there. The configuration is
>>  two monitors (1920x1080 and 1600x1200) in one screen (3520x1200)
>>  I have tried both displaying mythtv in a full window on the new
>>  screen and in a smaller one 1280x720. Everything goes ok until I try
>>  playback, either live or recorded. I get a display with 16:9
>>  stretched out to 3520:1200 or 44:15. It seems Mythtv looks at the
>>  screen size and not at the monitor or window size.
>>  I set up the windowsize in Screen Settings with "Use GUI size for TV
>>  playback" checked. Above there I now can select which screen to
>>  display on (0, 1 or All) but of cause they are all the same, the
>>  monitors are organized in one screen. Also I can select an aspect
>>  ratio (16:9, 16:10 and 4:3) bot not 44:15. It actually says there it
>>  cannot query a xinerama display and I should specify it, which I can
>>  understand. But I cannot, for the right values are missing.
>>  Could  this field be split in two or to some running percentage, so
>>  you can specify something? The three possibilities are nonsense for a
>>  xinerama display, it will always be two or more monitors linked
>>  together. Either that or it should look at the GUI setting for the
>>  aspect ratio.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   I can get a somewhat
>>  decent display by falsely telling the 16:9 picture is 4:3.

> Did you set your monitors up as one big screen on purpose or because
> it's not possible to set each monitor as one screen? This doesn't really
> makes sense to me, as they have different Y dimensions.

Yes I on purpose set it up in twinview, for else you cannot move
windows from monitor to monitor. Only, and this is a Gentoo thing, I
did not set the xinerama use-flag. See the rest of the thread.

> Apart from that, can't you set the GUI width and height manually and the
> GUI X offset depending on what monitor you want to use in Frontend ->
Setup ->> Appearance?

That's what I did, but MythTV does not look at that for aspect ratio
on displaying video. Again see the rest of the thread.

> HTH
> Thomas
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