[mythtv-users] NVidia/overscan problem

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 09/23/2013 03:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jerry" <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>
>> Check out the second section on the wiki, entitled "With NVidia Cards
>> and
>> more recent nVidia drivers (greater than version 300)"
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan#Making_MythTV_fit_the_screen_on_a_TV
> FWIW: I did find the overscan correction section of setup, and tried to 
> run it, but I had two separate problems:
>
> 1) At first, I couldn't find the lower-right "arrow", because it was so far
> off-screen that even the triangle wasn't visible.  and
>
> 2) When I did figure that out, and ran it up to where it belonged, Myth
> violently overcorrected, leaving me a 20-30 px strip of desktop on bottom
> and right.
>
> Those might both be related to the scan conversion in the TV, but I'm not
> betting on it.
>
> And just to make this more complicated: when the TV is being fed the 
> 1080i from the GeForce... it's "Display" *says* it's 720p.  <sigh>
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
I fixed the overscan problem on two TVs (1080i tube TVs) by using the
"Setup" "Appearance" setting in the frontend. Trying to use the arrow
keys in the "Screen Setup Wizard" to find the position did not work, but
by adjusting the number of pixels on the  "Setup" "Appearance" page,
then press next until you get to the menu page again, you can see what
the results are, do it again and adjust the numbers until it looks right.

Peter