[mythtv-users] Video card update fail

[John Pilkington]

On 10/10/18 07:13, Allen Edwards wrote:
> 

> AUDIO) Interesting experiment.  Myth as setup right now and plays only 
> through the analog output.  Youtube plays only through the digital 
> output.  Go figure. Alsa is set to output both.  Pulse Audio, which got 
> installed as part of troubleshooting, will mute Youtube if set to 
> analog.  I would have expected it to play through the TV. Maybe I need 
> to uninstall Pulse Audio...
> 
> VIDEO) Doesn't work on anything except Qt when VDPAU Normal is 
> selected.  I mean it technically works, but on Auto or OpenGL when VDPAU 
> is set to Normal, the picture is stretched vertically a lot, maybe 
> almost double. With it set to Auto and VDPAU set to Slim, my wife 
> complained about lots of strange lines in the playback.
> 
> 
There is a frontend-setup setting for "Video aspect override" for this.

There have been some changes in the presentation of the setup screens in 
recent years, and at present  I only have access to a kubuntu laptop 
running the latest ppa version of master with intel graphics...

Frontend setup > Video > Playback > General Playback >

 > Scaling, or Video aspect override, or Zoom

and, as I said before, I have some control of audio settings from the 
kde SystemSettings menus.

HTH,

John