Andrew Flegg wrote: > Hi, > > With the announcement of v1.7, I'm moving back to Freevo after a brief > try of MythTV when I got my DVB card. Mainly due to Myth's bloat, > speed (or lack of) and the abysmal quality of the audio output and UI > of MythMusic. > > However, there are a couple of things which are now beginning to bug > me enough to get into fixing them myself. Is anyone else working on > these, or have any ideas on how to approach them? > > Anamorphic skin > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I've got a 16:9 CRT TV in the UK, connected over S-Video. X is running > at 800x600 (with overscan). Since the TV stretches the image > horizontally, this means non-square pixels. The current themes look > rather "fat" like this, so I'm thinking of working on an anamorphic > skin which would look better on these widescreen TVs.
What I would like to know is how have you changed the size of the screen, simply by telling the TV that the format is 16x9. Also which video card are you using? I managed to mod the bios on my two nVidia cards so that the boot to PAL and not NTSC, quite nice seeing bootsplash coming up on the telly. > Since I'm not an artist, I imagine this will mostly be done by > squishing images in a current theme horizontally, and modifying the > co-ordinates to take it into account. Since font width/height can't be > specified separately, I'm currently using Deja Vu Sans Condensed, > which looks alright stretched back out. I don't know about gimp, but Photoshop allow a pixel aspect ratio to images, so it's a simple matter of copy and paste. > Is there such a theme already, or would there be a better way of > scaling everything horizontally (perhaps in kaa?) giving the ability > to define a theme which has ~1400 pixels horizontally to play with, > which get squished to 800 on output? No theme at the moment, suppose we should start with blurr. I found this when googling about for widescreen information: "Default Re: TV out with a 16:9 TV (CRT) The videocard can't output to a 16:9 resolution. In case of PAL the resolution is useally 768x576 or 720x576 (DVD). Your videocard can output in 640x480, 800x600 (most likely this is scaled to 768x576 or 720x576) and 1024x768 (not all horizontal lines can be used then, so you lose resolution). A TV isn't really a standard monitor and due to various reasons (I won't go into tech details), the image you send to the TV even in case of lets say a 16:9 DVD player isn't a real 16:9 image but 720x576. In case of a real 16:9 anamorphic DVD (image stretched vertically) a 720x576 image is sent to the TV and further the DVD-player sends a signal that the image should be shown in 16:9. The vertically stretched image is received by the TV and because the TV is told that it should display it in 16:9, the tv stretches the image horizontally (this 'increases' the resolution). So a DVD is displayed in 16:9 because the pixels aren't small squares but small rectangles." Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
