[mythtv-users] Aspect Ratio Help

Joel Jacobs jj7499 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 02:58:04 UTC 2006


Thank you for that!  I had to follow the nvidia link but got it working 
great now!

Joel


Nick wrote:
> On 29/10/06, Joel Jacobs <jj7499 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm a MythTV noobie and It seems I'm having some trouble getting hdtv to
>> display properly.  I'm using an Asus Pundit with integrated geforce 6
>> video.  I'm using the folowing modeline:
>>
>> ModeLine "ATSC-720-120p" 148.5 1280 1296 1360 1650 720 722 728 750
>>
>>
>> This is 1280x720 (16x9) 120hz vertical refresh.  The 120hz vert was
>> chosen because it's divisible by 24,30 and 60 and all modes seem to play
>> very smoothly.  I have the vertical scan on my monitor reduced so that
>> the raster is actually 16x9.  Problem is I always have black bars at the
>> top and bottom of the raster with aspect override "off".  Shouldn't an
>> ATSC broadcast fill a 1280x720 raster completely? When I quit playback
>> the MythTV Menus fill the raster completely as does my Xfce desktop.
>>
>> I've gone through all the settings I can find but I must be missing
>> something.
>> Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here.  I will
>> eventually have this connected to a 1280x720 projector and I need it to
>> fill the screen!
>>     
>
> Have you got DisplaySize set correctly in your xorg.conf file?
>
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size
>
> Nick
>
>   



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