On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Boehm</b> <<a href="mailto:boehm100@comcast.net">boehm100@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>> On 10/21/2007 07:12 AM, Dean Harding wrote:<br>>> Joan Vallés wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Just upgraded to Gutsy (7.10) and I've started to have problems when<br>>>> viewing recordings. My box is connected to a Samsung LCD TV (16:9) which
<br>>>> has a resolution of 1360x768, before upgrading when I watched 4:3<br>>>> material with zoom off it played well just with two black bars on the<br>>>> side; now it fills all the screen. On the other side, 16:9 material gets
<br>>>> letter boxed and it should not.<br>>>><br>>> There's a setting somewhere under Setup->Something (TV Setttings<br>>> possibly?)->Playback (can't remember exactly) where you specify your
<br>>> screen's aspect ratio.<br>>><br>>> I found that after I upgraded to Gutsy, that setting had been changed to<br>>> 4:3 (I believe it may have had to do with the NVIDIA drivers being<br>>> updated, possibly). Once I set that to 16:9, it all worked fine again.
<br>> Actually, the setting wasn't changed. It just didn't appear until you<br>> upgraded X (the new X does things differently--not sure whether it's a<br>> bug or what). So, you set it for the first time after upgrading. It
<br>> shouldn't be required unless you have multiple displays (and the newest<br>> versions of Myth trunk and 0.20-fixes SVN) now work with even the new X<br>> to find out if it's needed, so you'll see the setting disappear again
<br>> and it will do the right thing.<br><br><br>This is troubling. I intend to upgrade to Gutsy. What happens if I<br>have two xsessions? I have a 4:3 TV on the as DISPLAY=0.1 and a 16:9<br>projector on DISPLAY=0.0
.<br><br>I switch between them by doing this.<br><br>for 16:9 projector:<br>mythfrontend -O Theme=blootube-wide -display :0.0 --geometry 1280x720+0+0<br><br>for 4:3 TV:<br>mythfrontend -display :0.1<br><br>I have a sneaky suspicion that I'm going to run into problems.
<br><br>Jon<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I have the same font problem with gutsy + mythtv but can't seem to resolve it with the previous advice.<br>I have myth running on a 16:10 monitor at 1920x1200 (Dell 2405fpw) and my
xorg.conf has...<br>DisplaySize 519 325<br>... which should be the correct aspect ratio and I've checked X is using this size setting by running xdpyinfo.<br><br>The main menu fonts look great in myth, but the OSD fonts only display correctly if the aspect ratio is set to 4:3.
<br>Is myth seeing the 16:10 ratio and ignoring it (as it only has 4:3, 16:9, 14:9) then defaulting to 4:3? or am I doing something else wrong?<br><br>Ash<br><br>