[mythtv-users] 16:9 zoom/stretch and 0.21
backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org
backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org
Mon Sep 8 12:46:05 UTC 2008
I've been using Mythbuntu 7.10 with MythTV 0.20 for about 10 months now
and it has been working great for most of the features. The mantra is
"if it’s not broke, don’t fix it", and since my family uses it more than
me, that's what I've been going with.
But since I’m an engineer, my mantra is "if it’s not broke, it doesn’t
have enough features". Actually, I've been wanting to go to Mythbuntu
8.04/MythTV 0.21 (with no further upgrading from there) because (a) 8.04
is a LTS release, and (b) I wanted the option to have storage groups in
case I need it in the future.
Since 8.10 will be coming out next month, I chose last weekend to try
the upgrade. I used an extra partition I reserved just for testing to
do the upgrade, so that I can still boot back to 7.10 for “production”.
I'm having some big problems with the newer ALSA driver (1.0.16) with my
Intel-HDA (ALC883) sound that may be a deal breaker on the upgrade, but
that’s not a MythTV issue.
Here's the other potential deal breaker that is my question: My display
is a 28-inch monitor at 1920x1200. We frequently watch many (most) SD
recordings using the 16:9 zoom setting available from the OSD. This
cuts off a little bit, but fills the whole screen (i.e. even more than
1920x1080), and, well, we like it. Technically, the image is getting
zoomed to 16:10.
This option seems to be missing from the 0.21 that comes with Mythbuntu
8.04. I forget the exact settings that are available, but I believe
there were only four choices rather than the six that were there before,
and the zoom/stretch ones were missing.
Is this a new "feature". Is there some setting I need to change in
setup to get the old behavior back?
J.S.
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