James Stembridge wrote:
> On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>There are two concepts at work here:
>>1. normal Myth themes are based on 4:3 aspect ratio.  As you've seen the
>>-wide themes are based on 16:9 aspect ratio
>>2. MythTV GUI (Qt toolkit, really) assumes square pixels.  You could
>>pre-stretch a theme's images in the opposite direction, but the text
>>will never look right.
>
>
> Hmmm, my text looks fine and I'm outputting over s-video to a 16:9 tv
> with a corresponding 16:9 DisplaySize in the X config. For what it's
> worth I'm using the MythCenter theme, which afaik is not a designated
> "wide" theme.

But are your pixels square?  720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on
a 16:9 set.

-Doug

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