[mythtv-users] 16:9 zoom/stretch and 0.21

[ryan patterson]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:46 AM, <backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org> wrote:

> 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.


Hi J.S.

I know exactly what problem you are talking about.  I can give you a work
around but I don't know how to really fix it.

For my mythTV setup I have a dedicated backend and two frontends.  All
systems run ubuntu 8.04 (but not mythbuntu as I don't like their
"improvements").

Anyway on my main frontend (47" 16:9 1920x1080p monitor) I use the "W" key
to cycle between all the different zoom and stretch modes (6 modes I think).
 But on my secondary frontend (24" 16:10 1920x1200p monitor) the "W" key
only cycles between some of the different stretch modes and skips the two
zoom modes.

I don't know how to really fix this problem.  But as a work around you can
press the "O" key to access the on screen menu and change the zoom mode
there.  I hope this helps.

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Ryan Patterson
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