[mythtv-users] Mythtv theme question...

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Joseph,

Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 4:18:43 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:01 AM stuart <stuart at xnet.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
>  Is there a Mythtv theme which plays back wide-screen videos on an older
>  standard computer monitor while displaying user defined information (for
>  instance weather) at the bottom unused screen space?
>  
>  I think my answer will be: "Playing back the video is not part of the
>  mythtv theme responsibilities."  But I thought I'd ask just in case.




> I believe themes do have a "background" image that they put on the
> screen that the video is layered over.  It usually says "please
> wait" or has some image to that effect.


> I would suspect that you could have an external script that updates
> this image periodically, so you could have information at the bottom
> of the screen.  I am not sure it would update on the fly, maybe just when you start playback.


> I suspect that you could use the theme engine to overlay a
> information panel, but I have never seen it done.

I don't think that will work. The extra space is filled by the
letterboxing color and there you only can choose black or grey. There
is no transparent.
What you however kan do is to adapt the MythTV window size to only
fill the top part of your screen in a 16:9 ratio and then run another
program window in the lower part.


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