[mythtv-users] Playback looks at screensize not at monitor or windowsize

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/12/2015 09:42 AM, Karl Newman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> and should not (ever--for anyone, even without Xinerama) set the Playback
>> setting:
>>
>> Video aspect override
>> When enabled, these will override the aspect ratio specified by any
>> broadcaster for all video streams.
>>
>> where, if (for anyone at all) it seems like "Video aspect override" needs
>> to be set to get a proper display, you have misconfigured something else
>> (like, for example, your X configuration for DPI/DisplaySize).
>>
> I dunno, I use this setting and it seemed to be the only way I could get
> recordings to display correctly. My recordings are all 4:3 (from a PVR-500)
> and my TV is also 4:3, but I have to drive it with an HMDI to Composite
> converter which looks like a 16:9 target to the computer. So setting the
> aspect override to 16:9 is the only way video displays correctly on the TV
> (otherwise it would squeeze and letterbox horizontally).
>

That just means you have X misconfigured.  If you're displaying the 
image on a physical display with a 4:3 aspect, you need to tell X to use 
a 4:3 aspect.  I realize you're saying that the "autodetection" picks up 
16:9, but you need to override that with an explicit setting because 
it's wrong.

Mike