[mythtv] playback window too big

[Jason Ferrara]

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 14:41, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Monday 27 January 2003 02:00 pm, Jason Ferrara wrote:
> > I have my X server running at 640x480. When I go to watch tv or
> > playback a recording, the window that mythtv opens for video playback
> > is 705x528, so the bottom and right of the picture get cut off. I
> > checked this using xwininfo to get the dimensions of the playback
> > window. This isn't an overscan problem. Its that the window is larger
> > than the X screen size.
> 
> It's by design.  I've got things setup here so that an 800x600 window fills to 
> the edges of my TV pretty close to exactly.  If the video window only 
> displays to 800x600, then, it's doing absolutely no overscan, which looks 
> weird.  So, in 0.7, it compensates for that.  In CVS, the amount of overscan 
> compensation is configurable.
> 

Hmmm. Is this a window position problem then? The top left of the window
is at the top left of the screen, while the bottom right is somewhere
beyond the bottom and right. The result is no 'overscan' at the top and
left, but way to much on the bottom and right. Subtitles and the osd get
cut off.