[mythtv] Widescreen support

[John P. Poet]

Doug has done most the work on this, so he is a better person to explain the
issues.

John


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Tom Howard wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:38 am, John P. Poet wrote:
> > This has already been done.  Set your "DisplaySize" in XF86Config to have a
> > 16:9 ratio, and the widgets will scale accordingling.
>
> Sorry if I don't quite understand.  Do you mean there is a section in the
> XF86Config where you can say the screen aspect is 16:9?  Or do you simply
> mean set the screen size to something like 854x480 and everything will just
> work?
>
> The later works in terms of the fonts and widgets, but the backgrounds and
> icons are stretched (half truth.  I haven't changed my screen res to this,
> but instead used the GUI Width and GUI Height options in MythTV).  I haven't
> looked at the MythGallery, but I assume the pictures in there would be
> stretched as well.   Also, this doesn't work if I'm outputting 640x480 to a
> wide screen TV.  In this case, everything will be stretched in widescreen
> mode.
>
> Ideally what I would like to see (and am willing to try to implement) is full
> widescreen support in MythTV.  This requires:
>
> - The Screen Aspect Ratio option in the global settings.
> - An option to specify the screen's aspect to mplayer et al (e.g.
> '--monitoraspect %A', where %A is the screen aspect)
> - An option to specify the aspect to mplayer el at of the currently displayed
> movie/show if the information is not otherwise available or is incorrect(e.g.
> --aspect %A, where %A is the movie/show aspect)
> - A per recording option to specify the aspect of the movie/show.  This would
> determine if and how the option above would be used.
> - Support for widescreen themes.
>
> With the above implemented, MythTV should be able to drive a Widescreen TV,
> without the user having to switch the display between widescreen and normal.
>
> Of course, I could be wrong about all this.  Fell free to tell me so.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Tom Howard
>
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