On 1/12/07, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chandan Pitta wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I connect my PC to my LCD TV using DVI to HDMI cable I see that > > my TV is showing only part of the signal sent out by my PC due to > > overscan. I cannot underscan from my PC since it is DVI. Because of > > this weird behavior, Freevo looks like it got chopped of on all the > > sides. My idle bar is not fully visible etc. Do any of you guys had > > this issue? And how did you fix it? > > > > The fix I came up with is to reduce the size of freevo using geometry > > in freevo.conf which saves the right and bottom parts from getting > > chopped. But there is no config variable to offset x, y. So I added > > the following line in osd.py, which worked like a charm in fixing the > > problem. > > > > os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS']="28,20" > > > > But then I found out that when I play videos, the movie would not fill > > up the screen. Root cause is the -screenw, -screenh arguments passed > > to mplayer which uses the geometry I set in freevo.conf. Can we get > > rif of those options? Why are they present anyway? > > > > If we don't have a solution for this problem yet, I will be glad to > > send a patch that will add 2 config variables to freevo.conf to offset > > the display. > > There are three settings in the freevo.conf that affect the screen: > geometry = 1024x768 > width = 1024 > height = 768 > > And overscan moves the boarders inwards, I use higher values because the > tv is set larger than 4x3, so I lose the top and bottom of the screen: > OSD_OVERSCAN_X = 40 > OSD_OVERSCAN_Y = 40
This doesn't work. It does not do anything to the freevo display location. I still loose left and top side of Freevo screen. Any other ideas? > > I don't know why we have geometry, width and height. > > HTH > Duncan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-devel mailing list > Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
