[mythtv-users] OT - aspect ratio and non-square pixel display

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 19 May 2013 21:45:54 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have an older wide screen (16:9) plasma with a native resolution of
>1024x768.  It will accept a resolution of 1280x720, but it overscans.  In
>the past I just used a setting in the nvidia driver to compensate for the
>overscan. At some point that feature of the driver went away.

The feature did not go away, but was changed substantially and I think
is now not controllable from the Nvidia GUI.  But you can still fix
overscan problems by putting the appropriate lines into the xorg.conf
file.  I believe it involves using the ViewPortOut option, but I have
never used it myself so you should go looking for a good web page to
tell you how.