[mythtv-users] widescreen TV out

[Blair Preston]

oops, fat finger, that would be -fs "not" -fd

Blair Preston (bpreston at collabras.com) wrote:
>
> mplayer -fd -zoom -quiet -aspect 4:3 -vo xv %s  does the trick for me in this
> situation
>
>
> Mark Smith (mark at chez-moi.org.uk) wrote:
> >
> > In message <20050404143644.GD19997 at cloud.net.au>
> >           Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > > This works, but I have to change to 'full' mode manually each time I
> > > switch to the Myth input on the TV, because it thinks it's a 4:3
> > > picture. (The TV allows you to set your default mode for a 4:3 picture,
> > > but only among a couple of options, neither of which is right.)
> > >
> > > Seems that I need to tell the TV that it's a widescreen picture.
> > > I gather that widescreen signalling in the picture should do that. Is it
> > > possible to configure the NVidia driver to output that?
> >
> > I think that the other DVB boxes that I have signal widescreen via one of the
> > pins on the SCART connectors. This obviously isn't possible if you're using a
> > straight Svideo cable as I am currently.
> >
> > I believe there may be other mechanisms in use, but I doubt that the graphics
> > cards manufacturers really give this much consideration - hence Myth shows
> > 4:3 output on a 16:9 display (and vice-versa) through use of black bars.
> >
> > I've just set my TV in 16:9 mode - this is fine unless I want to use the
> > image viewer which seems to ignore the aspect ratio setting and assume you
> > have a 4:3 display. Mplayer seems to do the same, but fortunately Xine does
> > take account of the aspect ratio.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Smith - Surrey, UK
> > http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/
> >
> >
>
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