[mythtv-users] Skewed text and video display on widescreen 5120x1440

[Mark Kendall]

I'm guessing from your logs that you're running 0.31, so try changing
the screen aspect ratio setting:-

Setup->Appearance->Theme/Screen Settings->Screen aspect ratio

On 0.31 that defaults to 'Auto (Detect from display)' - which is
clearly not working when using 5120x1440. Try setting that to 'Auto
(Assume square pixels)' - which should work as expected. (I'd suggest
removing all of the geometry override settings etc)

Regards
Mark



On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 14:43, Alain <mythuser at alain.homeunix.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I've just moved to a wide display (screen), 5120x1440, and mythfrontend doesn't like it a bit. I set mythfrontend's window size to 1920x1080 for my tests.  If I change the screen size down to 3840x1080, then mythfrontend displays fine. I've tested using two different themes, both with qt and openGL as renderers.
>
>   The texts end up stretched wide and squashed vertically and too big. The video's are squashed vertically to the center of the display.
>
>
>   I'm not sure where to go from there. The command I used:
>
> /bin/mythfrontend -nw -geometry 1920x1080+3520+360 -v frame\,gpu\,gpuvideo\,gui\,osd --loglevel debug
>
>    Then I did a diff on the output when this command was ran using using the different display resolutions and this is what I got (qt as renderer):
>
> 18d17
> < I  Added logging to the console
> 20c19,20
> < I  MythUIHelper: Overriding GUI offset: x=3520 y=360
> ---
> > I  MythUIHelper: Overriding GUI offset: x=1920 y=0
> > I  Added logging to the console
> ...
> 55c54
> < I  Display: Geometry: 5120x1440+0+0 Size(Qt): 1mmx1mm        <<<=====
> ---
> > I  Display: Geometry: 3840x1080+0+0 Size(Qt): 1193mmx336mm
> 64c63
> < I  Display: Screen HDMI-0: 5120x1440 (Make: Philips Consumer Electronics Company Model: PHL 498P9-)
> ---
> > I  Display: Screen HDMI-0: 3840x1080 (Make: Philips Consumer Electronics Company Model: PHL 498P9-)
> 66,68c65,67
> < I  Display: Total desktop dim: 5120x1440, over 1 screen[s].
> < I  Display: Using screen HDMI-0: 5120x1440 at 0+0
> < N  Display: Desktop video mode: 5120x1440 70.303Hz
> ---
> > I  Display: Total desktop dim: 3840x1080, over 1 screen[s].
> > I  Display: Using screen HDMI-0: 3840x1080 at 0+0
> > N  Display: Desktop video mode: 3840x1080 75.000Hz
> 104,105c103,104
> < I  Display: Found screen number 0 (HDMI-0)
> < I  Display: Screen HDMI-0: 5120x1440 (Make: Philips Consumer Electronics Company Model: PHL 498P9-)
> ---
> > I  Display: Geometry override places window in screen 'HDMI-0'
> > I  Display: Screen HDMI-0: 3840x1080 (Make: Philips Consumer Electronics Company Model: PHL 498P9-)
> 107,108c106,107
> < I  Display: Total desktop dim: 5120x1440, over 1 screen[s].
> < I  Display: Using screen HDMI-0: 5120x1440 at 0+0
> ---
> > I  Display: Total desktop dim: 3840x1080, over 1 screen[s].
> > I  Display: Using screen HDMI-0: 3840x1080 at 0+0
> 1017d1015
> < D  'title' (base.xml:1312): height overflow. line height 42 paragraph height 86, area height 60
> 1033d1030
> < D  'title' (base.xml:1254): height overflow. line height 34 paragraph height 68, area height 54
>
>
> Alain
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org