[mythtv-users] TV aspect ratio problem

[Kenneth Aafløy]

On Thursday 12 February 2004 13:08, papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Paul Woodward wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just upgraded to the very latest CVS from CVS 2 days before 0.14
> > was released.
> >
> > I'm using a monitor as a TV, running at 1024x768. The TV picture now
> > appears to scale to the full size of my screen (both vertically and
> > horizontally) so that 16:9 broadcasts look more like 4:3 and 4:3 is very
> > squashed. I've tried playing with the appearance settings, but nothing
> > makes it look as it used to.
> >
> > 1.	Is this an intentional change?
> > 2.	Do I need to configure X to run my monitor at a non-conventional
> > resolution?
> >
> > If no.2 is the solution, any pointers would be useful.
>
> 	I, too, have the same problem.  Does mythtv assume that the display
> uses traditional computer 4:3 square pixels?  If so, that might be
> something worth adding to a configuration, since tvout inherently blows
> away the notion of square pixels.  I'm running a homebrew 720x480 modeline
> (at NTSC frequencies), and I have to set the PVR-250 to record at 16:9 for
> it to play correctly without adjustment.
>
> 	Thoughts, comments?  I guess the real deal is three different aspect
> ratios:
> - What it's recorded at
> - What X on the computer runs at
> - What they TV physically is (4:3 or 16:9)

This should be fixed in current CVS!

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Kenneth
ke-aa at frisurf.no