[mythtv-users] Mythutil message during playback

[Paul Onley]

On 08/17/2012 11:09 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 05:05 AM, Paul Onley wrote:
>>> On 08/16/2012 11:51 PM, Paul Onley wrote:
>>>> When I use mythutil to send a message to a frontend the message comes
>>>> up nicely centered in the GUI but is too large to fit on the screen
>>>> during playback. The larger the playback resolution the worse the
>>>> problem is. I had originally thought that there was no message
>>>> displaying on my 1280x720 frontend end because the popup was
>>>> completely off the screen but when I reduced the size to 640x480 about
>>>> half the message appears on the screen.
>>>>
>>>> This happens on both of my frontends which use completely different
>>>> hardware and drivers. Have I missed a setting somewhere?
>>> Is it still wrong sized if you use the VDPAU or OpenGL video renderer?
>>> (Change your Playback Profile group on the 3rd screen of Playback
>>> settings under Video in mythfrontend to test.)
>>>
>>> Mike
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> If I use OpenGL then the message displays properly on both frontends
>> however one of my frontends uses an older nvidia card that is only
>> supported by the nouveau driver which flickers badly with the OpenGL
>> renderer. I have tried all the different de-interlacers but have been
>> unable to get it to play smoothly. Although the video is smooth when any
>> OSD information is displayed so I think if I could find the right
>> setting it would work.
>>
>> Is there a way to adjust the message size in "Normal" renderer?
>>
>> VDPAU does not work with this driver as best I can tell.
>
> With the Xv video rendering mechanism, graphics are drawn onto the 
> unscaled video, then passed to the video card for scaling.  This is 
> why the OSD looks terrible when you're watching SDTV on a 1080p 
> screen.  However, as you can see, we actually seem to scale the OSD 
> before drawing, so there's probably something missing for the message 
> dialog (because the dev who created it probably only tested with the 
> modern video renderers).  So, until someone finds and fixes that bug...
>
> It was also mentioned at 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/525532#525532 .
>
> Mike
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Thanks Mike,

I had seen that other post but there was no answer as to whether it was 
a bug or a settings issue. Apparently there is no setting for this 
scaling issue. I will continue to try to get the OpenGL working with my 
card and driver but the little information that google has found would 
seem to indicate no.