[mythtv] Zoom -vs- Aspect -- need a custom setting

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Fri May 4 20:23:40 UTC 2007


On 5/4/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
>
>
> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> >
> > It sounds like your xorg.conf is missconfigured. You must tell
> > Xorg what the display's physical aspect ratio is as appears
> > it can't query this from the hardware. Once X knows that,
> > MythTV will know that the pixels are not square and will adjust
> > accordingly.
> >
> > If you are using multiple displays and using a Xinerama to
> > span the screens you need to tell MythTV the aspect ratio
> > of the display which will be displaying the video, this is
> > in the frontend configuration.
> >
> > Now that you know the basic problem, search the users mailing
> > list, this has been discussed there a few times.
> >
> >
> Hmmm . . . I have added this to the xorg.conf, as suggested by -users
> people:
>     Option    "DPI"  "346 x 195"
>
> But it didn't help -- although -- your mention of xinerama caught my
> attention.
>
> I am using twinview to simultaneously display on my screen and on
> S-Video -- could that be what's causing the confusion?  xorg.conf attached.
>
> -Dave

Try setting the screen physical size, not the DPI

DisplaySize    372.32 301.56

that's the size in MM. there's more about it in man xorg.conf

~Rob


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