[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

[James Stembridge]

On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick <doug at ties.org> wrote:
> There are two concepts at work here:
> 1. normal Myth themes are based on 4:3 aspect ratio.  As you've seen the
> -wide themes are based on 16:9 aspect ratio
> 2. MythTV GUI (Qt toolkit, really) assumes square pixels.  You could
> pre-stretch a theme's images in the opposite direction, but the text
> will never look right.

Hmmm, my text looks fine and I'm outputting over s-video to a 16:9 tv
with a corresponding 16:9 DisplaySize in the X config. For what it's
worth I'm using the MythCenter theme, which afaik is not a designated
"wide" theme.

James.