[mythtv-users] display resolution switching still not working

James Armstrong james at thearmstrongs.org
Thu Sep 9 21:03:49 EDT 2004


John Patrick Poet wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, James Armstrong wrote:
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>>I am still having a problem with the Use different screen size option. I
>>start X using KDE at 1920x1080i. Looks good. Mythfrontend starts then
>>switches to the 888x508 size as I have it set. Everything looks good. If
>>I play a 720x480 show it looks good. I have the default size set to
>>888x508, the same as the gui. I have an entry for 1920x1080 video format
>>that uses the resolution of 1920x1080i. The screen resizes when I
>>playback a file of that size but I am still getting just the upper left
>>corner of the recording showing on the screen.
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>If a 1920x1080i show is the first thing you watch after starting
>mythfrontend, does the "right" thing happen?
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Ok. I recorded a 1920x1080i and if I play that first apon starting 
mythfrontend it switches to 1080i and plays back ok.
I restarted and played a 720x480 then the 1080i and it still worked ok. 
Kind of weird.

>>The rest of the video is
>>hidden or not shown. I get the standard desktop background on the other
>>3/4 of the screen.
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>Interesting.  I have not seen that behavior in a very long time.  I still
>get the behavior where the rest of the screen is black occasionally, but a
>restart of X fixes the problem.
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>>I am using myth v0.16  from cvs last night on Fedora
>>core 1.
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>>- James
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>What window manager are you using?
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I am using KDE.

>John
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- James



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