[mythtv-users] HDTV?

[John Patrick Poet]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, John Sturgeon wrote:

> Depending on your modeline, you can trick your HDTV set into doing it
> for you.  If you can change your output resolution to 4:3 480p then your
> TV should recognize this and let you stretch it.  Right now, my output
> resolution is 16:9 540p so my TV (Toshiba 51S500) only gives me 16:9 and
> 16:9 zoom.  I'm willing to live with it.  I don't know of a way to
> toggle output resolutions on the fly.  If I could, then switching to a
> 4:3 resolution on demand would be great.


I have been working on this feature for the past couple of days.  Pretty
much works, but I need to do some more testing.

I can now specify a display resolution based on the input video
resolution.

I have taken Doug Larrick work which allows separate GUI and video
resolutions, and expanded it.

The reason this is useful to me, is I have a 4:3 HDTV.  My TV automatically
goes into a vertical squeeze mode (resulting in a 16:9 aspect) when
presented with vertical resolutions above 480P.  I generally use Myth to
watch HDTV, but would like it to be "full screen" when I watch SDTV
material.

I should have a patch ready to submit by this weekend.

John