[mythtv-users] Play DVD full height on widescreen LCD monitor using SVGA connector

[Kevin Kuphal]

Graeme Russ wrote:
> Firstly, this is my first posting here and my first time back into 
> Linux for quite some time (Last time I compiled a kernel was back when 
> Modules were first implemented)
>
> I have a VIA EDEN EN15000 running Fedora Core 5 and MythTV 0.20 
> installed as per the instructions at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/. At 
> the moment I do not have a TV capture card and am using MythTV as a 
> user friendly MP3/Ogg and DVD player. The only real obstacles so far 
> have been the 2.6.18 kernel being broken on the EN15000 (had to 
> recompile with some ACPI stuff commented out) and of course enabling 
> DMA on the DVD driver.
>
> I have digital audio output from the RCA jack straight into my Home 
> Theater system and video from the SVGA connector straight into a 
> Philips widescreen LCD TV running at 1024x768.
>
> So far everything is working great - I can play audio files and CD's 
> directly to the Home Theater, and I can play DVD's using the internal 
> DVD player (something I still can't get mplayer or Xine to do - Looks 
> like it might be something to do with decrypting the DVD data stream - 
> maybe I haven't got libdecss working right yet although xine-check 
> gives no errors or warnings, just a lot of lines starting with [good])
>
> The only problem is the DVD playback is 'squished' - i.e. letterbox 
> output. Apparently, mplayer can scale playback but I would much rather 
> use the internal DVD player. I've had a look through all the 
> configuration screens, the MythTV documentation, the wiki, the FAQ, 
> this user list, and google (that's where I found the mplayer scaling 
> trick) and so far I haven't seen any mention of the internal DVD 
> player being able to  do vertical  scaling to fill the screen. Does 
> such an option exist?
>
> If not, I'll start having a deeper look at getting Xine and mplayer 
> working instead.
I'm not an expert here, but 1024x768 isn't widescreen, is it?  Could it 
be it is scaling to that non-wide resolution?

Kevin