Hi,
On Friday 12 January 2007 20:38, Duncan Webb wrote:
> Chandan Pitta wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I connect my PC to my LCD TV using DVI to HDMI cable I see that
> > my TV is showing only part of the signal sent out by my PC due to
> > overscan. I cannot underscan from my PC since it is DVI. Because of
> > this weird behavior, Freevo looks like it got chopped of on all the
> > sides. My idle bar is not fully visible etc. Do any of you guys had
> > this issue? And how did you fix it?
> >
> > The fix I came up with is to reduce the size of freevo using geometry
> > in freevo.conf which saves the right and bottom parts from getting
> > chopped. But there is no config variable to offset x, y. So I added
> > the following line in osd.py, which worked like a charm in fixing the
> > problem.
> >
> > os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS']="28,20"
> >
> > But then I found out that when I play videos, the movie would not fill
> > up the screen. Root cause is the -screenw, -screenh arguments passed
> > to mplayer which uses the geometry I set in freevo.conf. Can we get
> > rif of those options? Why are they present anyway?
> >
> > If we don't have a solution for this problem yet, I will be glad to
> > send a patch that will add 2 config variables to freevo.conf to offset
> > the display.
>
> There are three settings in the freevo.conf that affect the screen:
> geometry = 1024x768
> width = 1024
> height = 768
As far as I understand it's not necessary to specify width nor height in
freevo.conf. If you do, these value will be reassigned from geometry. Look at
this code from config.py:
w, h = CONF.geometry.split('x')
CONF.width, CONF.height = int(w), int(h)
> And overscan moves the boarders inwards, I use higher values because the
> tv is set larger than 4x3, so I lose the top and bottom of the screen:
> OSD_OVERSCAN_X = 40
> OSD_OVERSCAN_Y = 40
>
> I don't know why we have geometry, width and height.
>
Best regards.
Frank
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