I have just installed mythtv and I am trying to resolve an annoying issue with the combination of freeview and mythtv. I have a widescreen TV (16:9 aspect ratio), and if I understand it correctly freeview broadcasts anamorphic 16:9, i.e. a squashed version of 16:9 that can be stretched to display on the TV without losing quality. So when going from the frontend to Live TV, when the TV is in 'widescreen' mode I get big black bars (letterbox) above and below the picture. That doesn't look right, so I use '4:3' mode, which gets me bars on all sides of the picture, 'smart' which gives me smaller black bars, and 'zoom' which gets rid of all the bars, and no obvious (to me) distortion in the picture. So that seems to me right mode
However, when I switch back into the mythtv frontend part of the picture is gone, and I only get it back by switching into 'widescreen' mode. I find his annoying. Is there any way to set up myth that it fits correctly in a 'zoom' image, or is it just a matter of starting the frontend with a size option? Frank _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
