We finally got a High-Def TV, but I've decided to leave the MythBox on it's S-Video tether (I have to work up the nerve to dive into a PCHD install, and in the mean time the DVI-in is reserved for the external HD tuner). What I've been working on for the last couple hours is trying to get Myth to take advantage of the widescreen so I don't get letterbox-in-letterbox when I watch DVDs with it.
I finally got X into 720x480p (DVD wide resolution) with this modline ModeLine "NTSC-DVD-60p" 26.964 720 760 816 856 480 482 488 525 which I found on this website http://www.sllug.org/how-to/linux-htpc/video_card_configuration.html I also put the following options in the Devices section of xorg.conf Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M" Option "TVOutFormat" "SVideo" # Picture was Black&White before this option After I got X in wide res and set the zoom on the TV to "Full" (so the picture is stretched across the whole TV), it was really easy to get mplayer playing dvds in the right proportion: I just added -monitoraspect 16:9 to the mplayer command line under the DVD,VCD, and Video options, and now the DVD fills up the entire screen in glorious anamorphic progressive scan. Now the part I'm having trouble with is getting the same kind of behavior out of MythFrontend. Here's the situation now.... * This Video is stored in 4:3, 640x480 * Mythfrontend is displaying it as 640x480, pixel-for-pixel, letterboxing on the sides * The picture still looks stretched horizontally because 720x480,16:9 pixels are wider than 640x480,4:3 pixels * It was hard to wrap my head around the math but i figured a picture of about 540x480 would look right, so I used the options in the Appearance section of the frontend to set that as the GUI/playback size. * The GUI looks just about right at 540x480, but since TV playback scales 1:1, it stops getting bigger when the sides hit the 540 mark and the vertical doesn't fill up the entire 480, so I'm back to the dreaded letterbox-within-letterbox problem that I started with, and the picture is stretched anyway So my questions are.... is there a way to override the TV playback scale ratio? Is there an easy option like mplayer and I'm just missing it? Has anyone else had luck doing this? What do you guys think? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
