Robert Denier wrote: >On Monday 21 November 2005 02:14 pm, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > >>>Currently I use the built in stretch mode on my TV to stretch 4:3 to >>>16:9. It does a nonlinear stretch so the edges of the picture are >>>stretched more than the middle. Windows MCE has this feature too. >>> >>>Before I burn an evening mucking with a working X config, i'd like to >>>know if MythTV do this also, or does it stretch the entire picture >>>evenly? >>> >>> >> I think I remember this thread coming up before. I really doubt >>that you will find anything from within the X config that will allow you >>to do that. Modelines are linear. Unless the specific video card driver >>has a special mode for it (non that I'm aware of do), you're screwed. >> >> That should probably be done at the application (i.e. mythtv) >>level. I don't think anyone has done it yet. >> >>-Cory >> >> > >Why would you want this? Is there a screen shot somewhere showing why >this is useful? I'm just curious... > > http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5140690-3.html solution 3 : Panoramic mode (the man with the fat hands...)
>Now what I'd like to see is an easy minor zoon that compromises showing 4:3 >material on 16:9 sets. Perhaps you could split the difference between what >you would cut off to keep the aspect ratio correct, but reduce the size of >the black bars by half. Then again, I'm not sure if I'd use the feature that >much, until I had it. For some odd reason if I zoom much beyond the normal >fit of 4:3 on the screen now, it tends to corrupt things. Sometimes you >might want to do that do that to fit 16:9 source material that is showing on >a 4:3 channel on a 16:9 screen. I've never looked into the issue, but I >suspect it might be video card (ati) related. > > That's what it's good for :) David _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users