<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 06/12/2015 09:42 AM, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
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and should not (ever--for anyone, even without Xinerama) set the Playback<br>
setting:<br>
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Video aspect override<br>
When enabled, these will override the aspect ratio specified by any<br>
broadcaster for all video streams.<br>
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where, if (for anyone at all) it seems like "Video aspect override" needs<br>
to be set to get a proper display, you have misconfigured something else<br>
(like, for example, your X configuration for DPI/DisplaySize).<br>
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I dunno, I use this setting and it seemed to be the only way I could get<br>
recordings to display correctly. My recordings are all 4:3 (from a PVR-500)<br>
and my TV is also 4:3, but I have to drive it with an HMDI to Composite<br>
converter which looks like a 16:9 target to the computer. So setting the<br>
aspect override to 16:9 is the only way video displays correctly on the TV<br>
(otherwise it would squeeze and letterbox horizontally).<br>
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That just means you have X misconfigured. If you're displaying the image on a physical display with a 4:3 aspect, you need to tell X to use a 4:3 aspect. I realize you're saying that the "autodetection" picks up 16:9, but you need to override that with an explicit setting because it's wrong.<br></blockquote><div> <br></div><div>Any hints about how I'd do that? I searched around for setting the aspect ratio on X but didn't turn up anything obvious. Maybe it just assumes square pixels? If that's the case then I really do need that setting in myth. Eventually it will be a moot point when I get around to buying a new TV, but this is what I'm stuck with for now.<br><br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>