[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4044: OSD fonts badly rendered on a 16:9 HDTV

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Wed Oct 3 14:02:03 UTC 2007


MythTV wrote:
>  All the normal theme stuff (general menus, EPG, etc...) is displaying
>  great.
>
>  BUT -- All the OSD, when watching 16:9 TV programming, has fonts
>  rendered badly, with weird aspect ratios and character overlaps. This is
>  for the OSD menu, the program information, the volume setting, position,
>  etc...
>
>  I tried many different OSD themes with the same results.
>
>  I made a few snapshots of how it looks like. They are available here:
>
>  http://www.youplala.net/~will/htpc/bad_fonts/
>   
i reported exactly the same problem (see #667).
i was told it was my fault.
i spent about a week trying to fix it with X server upgrades and config 
changes.
i could not fix it - so have learnt to live with it.

for me it happens on at least two different frontends - an AMD64 desktop 
machine with a 20" display and my laptop.
one uses NVidia and the other ATI.

so i don't know where to go from here.

so a rather longwinded me too!
--
simon


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