[mythtv-users] Everyone is short and fat - unwanted letterboxing during SD playback

[Paul Gardiner]

On 11/01/2013 14:59, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 05:26 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> My SD playback is being vertically scaled. It happens always for
>> recording playback and sometimes for live tv.
>>
>> Frontend setup
>>
>> recent 0.26-fixes
>>
>> UI: 720p
>> Video playback: allowed to choose 1080p, 720p or 576i
>>
>> Playback profile
>>     for height = 576 - ffmpeg and xv-blit
>>     any other height - vdpau
>>
>>
>> If I use vdpau throughout then then I don't see the problem, but I
>> have good reson for wanting to use xv-blit for SD (which I could
>> explain if anyone is interested - probably not :-) ).
>>
>> I'd like to see if I can fix this, but I'm not sure where to look.
>> I wondered if, because of timing issues, the vertical scaling was
>> being based on the UI resolution, but then why not the horizontal
>> scaling too?!
>>
>> I could stick a bug in track but I can't imagine that a problem with
>> this unusual usage would be of much interest to anyone else.
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>
> It's almost definitely a misconfiguration of your system and not a
> bug--otherwise, other people would have reported issues with aspect
> ratio.  Please post the output of the following and provide the host
> name/profile ID you're using for the affected frontend.  (You may need
> to run the mysql commands--starting with cat and ending with EOF--on the
> system with the MySQL server rather than the frontend, or include a
> -h<hostname> in the command.)
>
> xdpyinfo 2>&1 | tee ~/settings.txt &&
> cat<< "EOF" | mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg 2>&1 | tee -a ~/settings.txt
> SELECT * FROM settings WHERE value IN ('AspectOverride', 'Zoom',
> 'GuiWidth', 'GuiHeight', 'GuiSizeForTV', 'UseVideoModes',
> 'GuiVidModeResolution', 'XineramaScreen', 'XineramaMonitorAspectRatio');
> SELECT * FROM settings WHERE value LIKE 'TVVidModeResolution%';
> SELECT * FROM settings WHERE value LIKE 'TVVidModeForceAspect%';
> SELECT * FROM settings WHERE value LIKE 'VidMode%';
> EOF

Here's another attached settings.txt this time with the relevant parts
of the displayprofiles table, and with the dross of settings for other
frontends removed. I still don't have the xdpyinfo output. I have
xdpyinfo on another machine, and I tried xdpyinfo -display lithe:0
but that didn't work.

Mike, if there's nothing in these settings that looks like the
cause, that would still be useful to know.

Cheers,
	Paul.

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value	data	hostname
AspectOverride	0	?
AspectOverride	0	lithe
GuiHeight	720	lithe
GuiSizeForTV	1	?
GuiSizeForTV	0	lithe
GuiVidModeResolution	640x480	?
GuiVidModeResolution	1280x720	lithe
GuiWidth	1280	lithe
UseVideoModes	0	?
UseVideoModes	1	lithe
value	data	hostname
TVVidModeResolution	640x480	?
TVVidModeResolution	1920x1080	lithe
TVVidModeResolution0	640x480	?
TVVidModeResolution0	1280x720	lithe
TVVidModeResolution1	640x480	?
TVVidModeResolution1	720x576	lithe
TVVidModeResolution2	640x480	?
TVVidModeResolution2	720x576	lithe
value	data	hostname
TVVidModeForceAspect	0.0	?
TvVidModeForceAspect	0.0	lithe
TVVidModeForceAspect0	0.0	?
TVVidModeForceAspect0	0.0	lithe
TVVidModeForceAspect1	0.0	?
TVVidModeForceAspect1	0.0	lithe
TVVidModeForceAspect2	0.0	?
TVVidModeForceAspect2	0.0	lithe
value	data	hostname
VidModeHeight0	720	lithe
VidModeHeight1	576	lithe
VidModeHeight2	576	lithe
VidModeWidth0	1280	lithe
VidModeWidth1	544	lithe
VidModeWidth2	720	lithe
profilegroupid	profileid	value	data
97	290	pref_decoder	vdpau
97	290	pref_deint1	none
97	290	pref_deint0	vdpaubasicdoublerate
97	290	pref_filters	vdpaucolorspace=itu709
97	290	pref_osdfade	1
97	290	pref_osdrenderer	vdpau
97	290	pref_priority	2
97	290	pref_skiploop	1
97	290	pref_videorenderer	vdpau
97	290	pref_cmp0	
97	290	pref_cmp1	
97	290	pref_max_cpus	
97	326	pref_decoder	ffmpeg
97	326	pref_deint0	fieldorderdoubleprocessdeint
97	326	pref_deint1	none
97	326	pref_osdfade	1
97	326	pref_osdrenderer	softblend
97	326	pref_priority	1
97	326	pref_skiploop	1
97	326	pref_videorenderer	xv-blit
97	326	pref_cmp0	<= 1920 575
97	326	pref_cmp1	>= 0 576
97	326	pref_filters	
97	326	pref_max_cpus