[mythtv-users] video shift switching from livetv/guide

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 18, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Nick Bartos wrote:

> I have a bit of an annoying problem which I haven't really seen anyone
> else complain about.
>
> I have my gui configured to use just the onscreen area (have some  
> overscan
> going on), but I use full screen for the tv out (disabled the checkbox
> that says "use gui size for tv playback").  I have to do this for  
> optimum
> output quality (I am using a pvr350 for output and I don't want to  
> scale
> anything).
>
> When I go from full screen tv to showing the guide, the tv shifts a  
> bit
> before  the guide comes up and after the guide goes away.
>
> It was really easy to see exactly what was going on when I tried using
> vnc, because it made it go really slow.  If I was in the live tv  
> guide and
> exited out, I could clearly see that the live tv window was drawn  
> using
> the gui size for only a short moment, then it was repainted using  
> the full
> screen mode.
>
> Has anyone found a way around this (other than using "use gui size  
> for tv
> playback" or setting all the gui size parameters to 0), or is this  
> just a
> bug that I should report?

Turn the Use GUI size for TV Playback checkbox back on. It doesn't  
affect the TV output unless you're using the xv frame buffer stuff.