[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2675: Theme assumption of 800x600 size may cause pixel-alignment problems at screen resolutions of 1024x768

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Sun Nov 12 14:42:23 UTC 2006


#2675: Theme assumption of 800x600 size may cause pixel-alignment problems at
screen resolutions of 1024x768
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 Reporter:  Dagmar d'Surreal  |       Owner:  ijr    
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  trivial           |   Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythtv            |     Version:  0.20   
 Severity:  low               |  
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 For people who are ''really'' compulsive about where their theme elements
 land on the screen, the assumption that the screen is going to be 800x600
 (for 4:3) may cause (very minor, almost hairline, but likely to be just as
 maddening) problems with the exact placement of theme elements if they are
 expected to line up exactly with a background bitmap image and the display
 is at 1024x768.  The higher resolution should be able to be downsampled
 fine, but going the other way isn't quite such a sure thing and people
 with a high-quality output device might not be appreciating the extra
 blurriness and what happens to their pixel-perfect graphics.

 Several nVidia cards I've seen give the crispest and brightest output to
 SVideo/TV when run at 1024x768.  This might be a good time to pump up the
 widescreen assumption to 1920x1080 (for 16:9 output at 1080i/p) as well,
 since themes seem to always need a little poking-at between codebase
 releases anyway.

 (After doing a lot of pixel-by-pixel jiggery-pokery last weekend trying to
 figure out how to get a convincing LCARS theme going, I realized this
 might come up as a future problem for people using the oh-so-crisp LCD
 displays.)

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