[mythtv-users] theme for anamorphic widescreen TV
Julian Edwards
myth at julian-edwards.com
Thu Mar 30 18:02:38 UTC 2006
Peter Schachte wrote:
>Or would I do better with a square-pixel screen resolution for the
>myth frontend (and get the nvidia driver to scale it for me?), and
>fall back to 720x576 for displaying video? If so, how do I do that?
>Or does anyone with a PAL widescreen SD TV have a better or easier
>solution?
>
>
The basic problem is that Myth is using the DisplaySize X config item
for the screen's aspect ratio whilst X wants to use it to get the DPI.
This is fine until you start displaying anamorphic content.
>I even tried
>forcing 100 x 100 dpi on the command line when launching X, but that
>didn't help.
What happened?
I think there was a rumbling of using something internal to Myth for the screen's aspect ratio last time I asked about this. Have a look through the archives and you might see something.
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