Set DisplaySize in your X config to 400x225 (even though this is probably not the actual physical size of your screen, the on-screen fonts become unreadable if you set the size higher than this.) Freeview broadcasts display correctly this way with my TV set to "Wide", whether the source is 4:3 or 16:9 - 4:3 broadcasts are correctly pillarboxed to display on the 16:9 screen; 16:9 broadcasts fill the display in glorious widescreen :)
My only problem now is that the GUI doesn't do the aspect ratio properly, and I'm busy finding my way around the code now to address this. A quick solution to over-fat fonts is to find a copy of Arial Narrow and adjust all the themes to use this as the font :) Richard On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 18:45, Frank Visser wrote: > 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 > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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