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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/17/2013 11:58 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 16/01/2013 19:07, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> It's almost definitely a misconfiguration of your system and not a
>>>> bug
>>>
>> Paul, I'll need something that shows X configuration (not specified
>> configuration, but actual running configuration).  The X log would
>> probably work, though it's much more challenging to read/figure out.
>
> Here's my X log. I also tried using a copy of xdpyinfo from another
> computer, but it failed because of not being able to find
> libXxf86dga.so.1. My frontend has libXxf86vm.so.1, but not that file.
> If I could get a copy of xdpyinfo from someone with a more similar
> set up, I bet it would work.

Paul,

Are you using a Xinerama-style setup (or TwinView or whatever) with 
multiple displays attached?  It seems X has configured both your 
internal notebook display and an external display.

I'm pretty sure that you just need to set the:

Display on screen
Run on the specified screen or spanning all screens.

and

Monitor aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of a Xinerama display cannot be queried from the 
display, so it must be specified.

settings in frontend settings under Appearance.

Note that I just recently changed the default for the Xinerama monitor 
aspect ratio to 16:9 (in unstable/development, so it will be in 0.27 - 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/544560#544560 ), 
but if you're using any kind of Xinerama-type setup (if you have 
multiple monitors connected), you should /really/ specify it directly 
rather than rely on defaults.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you--been really busy with life 
and just starting to get caught back up with MythTV (only 600 MythTV 
messages to go through, plus 3000 MythTV ticket messages, plus 1000 
commit messages).  (Wow, almost 6 months later with the reply--and this 
is one of the more recent ones to catch up on...)

Mike