[mythtv-users] hdtv question

[Michael Wisniewski]

Awesome, thank you very much for the information.

Is there anything that MythTV can't do!?!?!




On 10/27/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/27/06, Michael Wisniewski <wiz561 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For whatever reasons, I was thinking about this last night.
> >
> > I have a 32" 4:3 TV that does hdtv.  For OTA hi-def, it makes it
> letterbox
> > and then shrinks the left/right sides so it's back to 4:3 and doesn't
> fill
> > the screen.
> >
> > I would like to use MythTV to play hdtv avi's and mpeg's.  I have bought
> > anything yet, but I'm wondering....if I configure x11 for 1080i hdtv,
> won't
> > everything be in that shrunk down letterbox format?  For viewing tv over
> the
> > air, I just have a hauppauge pvr-150 and no hdtv.
> >
> > What I would love to do is be able to display everything on the screen
> fully
> > (4:3), but then if I play a hdtv avi or mpeg file, it displays it
> properly
> > in 1080i.  Is this possible?
>
> what I did when I had my 4:3 HDTV was to set everything to be 16:9 as
> default. Then, for 4:3 content I had Myth override as 4:3. I guess you
> could also do the opposite, but I felt the menu looked better in 16:9
> =D
>
> To do this go into the Appearance Setup and set up different modes
> based on source resolution.
>
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