Ben, Thanks for those tips. You're right about the 33_1 issue and that zoom (Cntrl-W twice) works just fine. I also ran "make install" and that fixed the ffmpeg problem. I just didn't look close enough at that output for the ffmpeg version. I'm sure I'm going to have more issues (like full-screen on the flash player, automatic log-on to the wireless network, random mythbackend connection error messages), but most of those just slow up the booting process and merely inconvenient problems but not functional problems. The full-screen flash-player I want to trouble-shoot a bit more and give you-all output to help isolate the problem.
Thanks! --Christer On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 13:56 -0500, Ben Dailey wrote: > >>> 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 i > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
