>>> cwatson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/20/07 3:31 PM >>> So I have a couple issues with my MythTV box now. They are not all related, thankfully. Just as a reminder, I am using a Avermedia A180 to tune in over-the-air digitial HD stations. My TV is standard def and I use an S-Video cable to connect the computer to it.
1) Some channels (e.g. NBC_1) appear small. I think I understand why this is happening. On shows that are not produced for wide-screen, the station adds vertical black bars to the wide-screen picture. My settings for MythTV adds horizontal black bars to any wide-screen picture. Net result, the picture is framed by horizontal and vertical black bars and appears to only occupy the inner half of my TV. Now I can set the "zoom" level to eliminate this problem, but then all the standard-def stations appear to have their outer edges cropped. So is there a way to set MythTV to zoom on a channel-by-channel basis? Right the fact that you are watching a standard def show on a high def channel on a standard def TV gives you that lovely framed looked. I don't believe there is an option to set this channel by channel but I don't think that you would want that because what do you get when you watch a high def show on that same channel? I am watching football right now and have top/bottom black bars, but some commercials are "framed" with myth top/bottom black bars and then the networks left/right side bars. I just use the 'w' twice key to switch full zoom on standard def shows on the high def channels. 2) Ben, after upgrading to the trunk version of MythTV, I ran into a problem with the plugins. The solution was to install an update for all the plugins. Unfortunately, that has somehow introduced the same Flash Player problem we solved on Thursday. I'm a bit confused by that, however, because I thought the problem with the FlashPlayer not working was caused by having an old version of ffmpeg installed. I thought we fixed that by installing a more recent version of ffmpeg which does not seem to have been changed. Here is the output of apt-cache to prove that last point: The version of ffmpeg that ships with ubuntu is built from cvs but it is 9 months old which you can see by the date on apt-cache results which is March and we need a version of ffmpeg after July I believe you should just be able to go to the ffmpeg src directory we created and do a $sudo make install to reinstall over the ffmpeg version that got reinstalled/upgraded. HTH, Ben _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
