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

[Allen Edwards]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:19 PM, <backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 Mike said:
>
> > > 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 menu. 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.
> > >
> >
> > Only because your display is improperly configured. If you set your
> > DisplaySize such that it's a 16:10 ratio, Myth will actually know that
> > you have a 16:10 screen.
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Full zoom is for 16:9 material letterboxed in a 4:3 picture (which, on a
> > 16:9 or 16:10 screem would be both letterboxed and pillarboxed). Half
> > zoom is a compromise that does a 14:9 display, allowing you to zoom a
> > 4:3 picture (which does not contain letterboxed images) to full width of
> > your screen without changing aspect (i.e. making tall/thin people) and
> > while losing a "minimum, but acceptable" amount of the top and bottom of
> > the picture.
> >
> > > Is this a new "feature". Is there some setting I need to change in
> > > setup to get the old behavior back?
> >
> > Nope. Just need to learn how it works now that it's been done properly.
> :)
>
> I went through both the front end and back up set up screens and the
> only screen I found applicable was the screen set up page, which already
> correctly sensed my screen as being 1920x1200, so I don't think it's a
> config issue.  So I still only get the four options when I cycle through
> the "change aspect ratios" option from the menu.
>
> Interestingly, though, when I cycle through with the "w" key (hadn't
> tried that before, usually just use the MCE remote), I do get the "half"
> option, which seems to be what was described before as "16:9 zoom".
> Your 14:9 descriptions sounds about right as to what I look at.
>
> In other words, I have the opposite behavior from Ryan who wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> For me, "W" works and "O" doesn't.
>
> Unrelatedly....
>
> > 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").
>
> Just curious, Ryan, which "improvements" do you find a problem?  I'm no
> fanboi or anything, just curious.
>
> Anyways, I could map a MCE remote key to w and do it that way, so I
> guess it isn't a show stopper.  Getting MCE to work and fixing that
> sound issue are the remaining stoppers.  I think I will pursue the
> "booting into the old kernel" approach if I can fix X there, since that
> would solve my sound and MCE problems (I use the lirc_mod_mce driver
> since I have the MCE keyboard, too).
>
> Thanks for everyone's responses.
>
> J.S.
>

I assume the sound issue is an analog output and not spdif.  Is that
correct?

Allen
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