<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:46 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:backuppc@sundquist.imapmail.org">backuppc@sundquist.imapmail.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've been using Mythbuntu 7.10 with MythTV 0.20 for about 10 months now<br>
and it has been working great for most of the features. The mantra is<br>
"if it's not broke, don't fix it", and since my family uses it more than<br>
me, that's what I've been going with.<br>
<br>
But since I'm an engineer, my mantra is "if it's not broke, it doesn't<br>
have enough features". Actually, I've been wanting to go to Mythbuntu<br>
8.04/MythTV 0.21 (with no further upgrading from there) because (a) 8.04<br>
is a LTS release, and (b) I wanted the option to have storage groups in<br>
case I need it in the future.<br>
<br>
Since 8.10 will be coming out next month, I chose last weekend to try<br>
the upgrade. I used an extra partition I reserved just for testing to<br>
do the upgrade, so that I can still boot back to 7.10 for "production".<br>
<br>
I'm having some big problems with the newer ALSA driver (1.0.16) with my<br>
Intel-HDA (ALC883) sound that may be a deal breaker on the upgrade, but<br>
that's not a MythTV issue.<br>
<br>
Here's the other potential deal breaker that is my question: My display<br>
is a 28-inch monitor at 1920x1200. We frequently watch many (most) SD<br>
recordings using the 16:9 zoom setting available from the OSD. This<br>
cuts off a little bit, but fills the whole screen (i.e. even more than<br>
1920x1080), and, well, we like it. Technically, the image is getting<br>
zoomed to 16:10.<br>
<br>
This option seems to be missing from the 0.21 that comes with Mythbuntu<br>
8.04. I forget the exact settings that are available, but I believe<br>
there were only four choices rather than the six that were there before,<br>
and the zoom/stretch ones were missing.<br>
<br>
Is this a new "feature". Is there some setting I need to change in<br>
setup to get the old behavior back?<br>
<br>
J.S.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi J.S.</div><div><br></div><div>I know exactly what problem you are talking about. I can give you a work around but I don't know how to really fix it.</div><div><br></div><div>For my mythTV setup I have a dedicated backend and two frontends. All systems run ubuntu 8.04 (but not mythbuntu as I don't like their "improvements").</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway on my main frontend (47" 16:9 1920x1080p monitor) I use the "W" key to cycle between all the different zoom and stretch modes (6 modes I think). But on my secondary frontend (24" 16:10 1920x1200p monitor) the "W" key only cycles between some of the different stretch modes and skips the two zoom modes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't know how to really fix this problem. But as a work around you can press the "O" key to access the on screen menu and change the zoom mode there. I hope this helps.</div><div><br>
</div><div>_____________<br></div>Ryan Patterson<br><div> </div></div></div>