[mythtv-users] Downscaling HD to SD in .21

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/21/2008 12:21 AM, Don Porter wrote:
> I recently bought a HD Homerun tuner.  When I try to watch HD tv on my
> SD frontend, the playback is not properly scaled to the screen.  Just
> under a half of the picture is off of the screen on the right hand
> side (from my perspective).
>
> Any suggestions on what might be going wrong here?

Most likely broken video drivers.

>   Based on earlier
> postings, I was under the impression that mythtv should automatically
> downscale the picture for a lower resolution tv.
>
> I am running a stanard ubuntu install (8.04), on an x86_64 system with
> myth .21.
>
> I can tweak the zoom/aspect ratio settings to get it tolerable, but
> even then the outer 10% or so is cropped off.  Ideally, I'd like to
> get the standard black bars on the top and bottom and see the whole
> picture.

Make sure you run MythTV full screen and without any overscan or offset
(in MythTV).

Mike