mplayer -fd -zoom -quiet -aspect 4:3 -vo xv %s does the trick for me in this situation
Mark Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This works, but I have to change to 'full' mode manually each time I > > switch to the Myth input on the TV, because it thinks it's a 4:3 > > picture. (The TV allows you to set your default mode for a 4:3 picture, > > but only among a couple of options, neither of which is right.) > > > > Seems that I need to tell the TV that it's a widescreen picture. > > I gather that widescreen signalling in the picture should do that. Is it > > possible to configure the NVidia driver to output that? > > I think that the other DVB boxes that I have signal widescreen via one of the > pins on the SCART connectors. This obviously isn't possible if you're using a > straight Svideo cable as I am currently. > > I believe there may be other mechanisms in use, but I doubt that the graphics > cards manufacturers really give this much consideration - hence Myth shows > 4:3 output on a 16:9 display (and vice-versa) through use of black bars. > > I've just set my TV in 16:9 mode - this is fine unless I want to use the > image viewer which seems to ignore the aspect ratio setting and assume you > have a 4:3 display. Mplayer seems to do the same, but fortunately Xine does > take account of the aspect ratio. > > -- > Mark Smith - Surrey, UK > http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
