[mythtv] RE: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r7983 by danielk

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Tue Nov 22 14:15:40 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 19:42 +0100, Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
> > Closes #667. By applying modified patch.
> > This doesn't actually fix the OSD font size in the letterbox modes
> > as stated in the ticket summary.
> > But what it does do is keep the aspect ratio of the fonts correct.

> Not sure i like the result of this one.
> If i watch a recording in 16:9 the fonts in the osd menu is too big to fit
> properly resutling in the text being cut off.
Are you using a letterbox mode? This doesn't attempt to shrink the fonts
if you are zoomed into a portion of the video. 

The font shrink for letterbox feature should be coming soon..

> Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the frontend does not
> change aspect by itself so i have to use the menu to change aspect ratio to
> 16:9
A letterbox mode then?

What is the aspect ratio of the source video and which "16:9" letterbox
mode did you select exactly.

-- Daniel



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