[mythtv-users] Tricks for calibrating X on PVR-350 output

[Joe Votour]

Gabe,

The amount of text that the OSD can display is
determined by two factors - the size of the font
you're using for it, and the available of allocated
space for the OSD (both vary by OSD theme).  I'm not
really too sure how to change those items at the
moment (I honestly haven't looked into it recently).

I believe that the themes are setup for a default of
800x600 as the optimum resolution.  Seeing as we can't
do that on the PVR-350, I don't think that there's any
easy way to get a full-screen picture, along with fast
theme scaling, at least not until ivtv has
over/underscan working.

Personally, the delay of the scaling doesn't bother
me, since I leave my MythTV machine running 24/7 (I
use the same PC for the frontend and backend).  Of
course, not everybody is in the same situation.

-- Joe

--- Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is awesome.  I am finally able to get a better
> screen using both
> this, and changing to ratpoison (and it makes
> startup times quicker by
> about 10-15 seconds too when i dont need to load up
> KDE!)
> 
> I used slightly different values than those others
> have used, and have
> two questions.
> 
> 1) is it possible to have the OSD (I believe that is
> what it is) --
> the portion that tells you what program you are
> watching and gives a
> description when you change channels -- to contain
> the full
> description info?  It cuts out at 1 line of
> description, and would be
> helpful if it had 2 or more lines.  I always assumed
> it did, but just
> could not see it, now I see that is not the case.
> 
> 2) are there values that I should aim for with the
> GuiHeight and
> GuiWidth that will make the prescaling of images
> faster?  It seemed to
> be faster when I plugged in certain numbers...should
> they be in some
> proportion to each other to make the pre-scaling go
> faster?
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