Awesome, thank you very much for the information.<br><br>Is there anything that MythTV can't do!?!?!<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">
adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 10/27/06, Michael Wisniewski <<a href="mailto:wiz561@gmail.com">
wiz561@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> For whatever reasons, I was thinking about this last night.<br>><br>> I have a 32" 4:3 TV that does hdtv. For OTA hi-def, it makes it letterbox<br>> and then shrinks the left/right sides so it's back to 4:3 and doesn't fill
<br>> the screen.<br>><br>> I would like to use MythTV to play hdtv avi's and mpeg's. I have bought<br>> anything yet, but I'm wondering....if I configure x11 for 1080i hdtv, won't<br>> everything be in that shrunk down letterbox format? For viewing tv over the
<br>> air, I just have a hauppauge pvr-150 and no hdtv.<br>><br>> What I would love to do is be able to display everything on the screen fully<br>> (4:3), but then if I play a hdtv avi or mpeg file, it displays it properly
<br>> in 1080i. Is this possible?<br><br>what I did when I had my 4:3 HDTV was to set everything to be 16:9 as<br>default. Then, for 4:3 content I had Myth override as 4:3. I guess you<br>could also do the opposite, but I felt the menu looked better in 16:9
<br>=D<br><br>To do this go into the Appearance Setup and set up different modes<br>based on source resolution.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>Before you ask, read the FAQ!<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions">
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