<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:19 PM, <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;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 Mike said:<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>
</div>> > recordings using the 16:9 zoom setting available from the menu. This<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> > 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>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Only because your display is improperly configured. If you set your<br>
> DisplaySize such that it's a 16:10 ratio, Myth will actually know that<br>
> you have a 16:10 screen.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> > 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>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Full zoom is for 16:9 material letterboxed in a 4:3 picture (which, on a<br>
> 16:9 or 16:10 screem would be both letterboxed and pillarboxed). Half<br>
> zoom is a compromise that does a 14:9 display, allowing you to zoom a<br>
> 4:3 picture (which does not contain letterboxed images) to full width of<br>
> your screen without changing aspect (i.e. making tall/thin people) and<br>
> while losing a "minimum, but acceptable" amount of the top and bottom of<br>
> the picture.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> > Is this a new "feature". Is there some setting I need to change in<br>
> > setup to get the old behavior back?<br>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Nope. Just need to learn how it works now that it's been done properly. :)<br>
<br>
</div>I went through both the front end and back up set up screens and the<br>
only screen I found applicable was the screen set up page, which already<br>
correctly sensed my screen as being 1920x1200, so I don't think it's a<br>
config issue. So I still only get the four options when I cycle through<br>
the "change aspect ratios" option from the menu.<br>
<br>
Interestingly, though, when I cycle through with the "w" key (hadn't<br>
tried that before, usually just use the MCE remote), I do get the "half"<br>
option, which seems to be what was described before as "16:9 zoom".<br>
Your 14:9 descriptions sounds about right as to what I look at.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
In other words, I have the opposite behavior from Ryan who wrote:<br>
<br>
> Anyway on my main frontend (47" 16:9 1920x1080p monitor) I use the "W" key<br>
> to cycle between all the different zoom and stretch modes (6 modes I think).<br>
> But on my secondary frontend (24" 16:10 1920x1200p monitor) the "W" key<br>
> only cycles between some of the different stretch modes and skips the two<br>
> zoom modes.<br>
><br>
> I don't know how to really fix this problem. But as a work around you can<br>
> press the "O" key to access the on screen menu and change the zoom mode<br>
> there. I hope this helps.<br>
<br>
</div>For me, "W" works and "O" doesn't.<br>
<br>
Unrelatedly....<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> For my mythTV setup I have a dedicated backend and two frontends. All<br>
> systems run ubuntu 8.04 (but not mythbuntu as I don't like their<br>
> "improvements").<br>
<br>
</div>Just curious, Ryan, which "improvements" do you find a problem? I'm no<br>
fanboi or anything, just curious.<br>
<br>
Anyways, I could map a MCE remote key to w and do it that way, so I<br>
guess it isn't a show stopper. Getting MCE to work and fixing that<br>
sound issue are the remaining stoppers. I think I will pursue the<br>
"booting into the old kernel" approach if I can fix X there, since that<br>
would solve my sound and MCE problems (I use the lirc_mod_mce driver<br>
since I have the MCE keyboard, too).<br>
<br>
Thanks for everyone's responses.<br>
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J.S.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I assume the sound issue is an analog output and not spdif. Is that correct?</div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div><div> </div></div></div>