<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michael T. Dean <mtdean@thirdcontact.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:07 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] HDPVR HD Recordings are in 4:3 format<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
On 12/12/2013 07:15 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>> On 12/12/13 18:24, Scott Smith wrote:<br>>> I have this problem or one simiar to it. All my HD content appears to be<br>>> in a 4:3 aspect. It is compressed horizontally. Forcing the aspect can<br>>> make it better.<br>>> Im not sure what changed.<br>>> <br>>> But i did notice the output from the frontend is reporting the desktop<br>>> as 2560x1080. Maybe the frontend thinks it needs to compress the<br>>> 1920x1080 into this?<br>> If your monitor is reporting its dimensions accurately, that should not<br>> matter.<br><br>Except, based on that screen resolution, I'd bet that Scott is using X configured with Xinerama (or one of its ilk, such as TwinView) enabled (even if he thinks there's only one monitor) /and/ using an old version of MythTV (not 0.27). Since we can't get accurate aspect when Xinerama is enabled, we use the user-specified
value for the "Monitor aspect ratio" setting, which defaulted to 4:3 until 0.27 (when it was changed to default to 16:9). Even if you were to upgrade to 0.27 and it started playing back properly, you shouldn't rely on the defaults. Anyone who has Xinerama enabled should specify the value properly.<br><br>So, Scott, if you do have Xinerama enabled, you need to specify values for:<br><br>Display on screen<br>Run on the specified screen or spanning all screens.<br><br>and<br><br>Monitor aspect ratio<br>The aspect ratio of a Xinerama display cannot be queried from the display, so it must be specified.<br><br>(which will only appear in the Appearance Settings section of frontend setup if you actually have Xinerama enabled).<br><br>Mike<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br><br><br><br>Im not running any multiple monitor configuration (at least intentionally). I have a single 1080p TV im using as a monitor through HDMI using Nvidia 430 card.<br>Everything was working perfect until about a couple days ago. Im not sure what changed to cause this.<br>Ive checked my screen res both through KDE and nvidia and both are 1920x1080.<br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>