[mythtv-users] Resize screen on TV with FX5200

[Al McIntosh]

Urban Nightmare wrote:

>I recently made up a Mythfrontend for one of my older tv (around 25 
>years old).  The only problem I have is that the top of the image in X 
>is not at the top of the physical screen.  If I use the VCR with regular 
>cable its at the top but in Xorg is not.  Using the overscan doesn't 
>help this.  I'm wondering if anyone knows of a utility to move/resize 
>(much like the controls on a PC monitor) the screen.
>
>Stephen
>  
>


You have better control of overscan running nvidia-settings compared to 
using overscan directive in xorg.conf. Run `nvidia-settings` as the user 
you will be running X and myth as, there is a slide to adjust the 
overscan to your liking and save.
Save will create ~/.nvidia-settings-rc

I had to add to add /usr/bin/nvidia-settings --load-config-only & to my 
~/.xinitrc so each time X loads it would apply the settings.

I found, I had to adjust overscan while a recording was playing. If I 
adjust the overscan when say a mythfrontend menu was showing and then 
played a recording there was a black border around the recorded show 
with the distorted edges of the broadcast that your television overscans 
for you.  In my ~/.nvidia-settings-rc I have 0/TVOverScan[TV-0]=18 which 
is quite high but I still see a small black band around 1cm across the 
bottom of the playback. I haven't made the overscan higher because I am 
already beginning to cut off the mythfronted menus.