[mythtv-users] HD black bars on top and bottom of screen

Omari Norman omari at smileystation.com
Wed Nov 10 11:12:57 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:03:06AM -0500, Omari Norman wrote:
> > Sounds like you have your PC set to the wrong output resolution,
> > like maybe 1280x1024 or 1024x768.  Your TV will stretch the MythTV
> > menu screen to fill the screen, but MythTV will add black bars at
> > the top and bottom, since your resolution is set to a 4:3 ratio.
> > Try changing your resolution to 1280x720 or 1920x1080, or whatever
> > the native resolution of your TV is.
> 
> Thanks. I have fiddled around with xorg.conf and xrandr. xrandr now says
> that my output resolution is 1360x768. My TV manual says that a
> supported resolution is 1366 x 768. It seems 1360 x 768 is a 16:9
> resolution, yet I am still getting gray bands on the top and bottom of
> the screen. They are taking up about a fourth of the screen, total.

I tried playing the recorded files in mplayer instead of MythTV; when I
hit "f" to make mplayer full screen, the recordings look perfect. MythTV
adds the grey bands when it plays back the exact same files.



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