[mythtv-users] Re: VOB playback on a PVR-350

[Jason E Miller]

> Marc, I was just wondering because no one seems to have the problem with
> the aspect ratio except me. As I said earlier, viewing pictures in
> MythGallery are also stretched vertically. The circles around "Watch
> TV", "MythWeather", etc. in the default theme seem perfectly round and
> not distorted and the entire border surrounding the MythWeather radar
> image is visible, so most things seem fine. I have the following
> settings in Setup->Appearance: GUI width:664, GUI height:448, GUI X
> offset:29, GUI Y offset:16, and "Use GUI size for TV playback" is
> checked. I posted part of my XF86Config file earlier. Is there another
> setting somewhere that would affect the aspect ratio?

You might want to try adding a "DisplaySize" entry to the
"Monitor" section of your XF85Config file like this:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NTSC Monitor"
DisplaySize 660 480

[snip]

EndSection

The two numbers are the width and height of your actual screen
in millimeters.  I haven't actually tried this with a PVR-350
but it fixed the aspect ratio problem that I was having:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/71254

	-Jason