On 11/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > ...
Yeah.. don't bother trying to get X to do this. X is a linear beast.. I have this mode on my 16:9 Sony and I love it as well. You loose just a tad of the top and bottom of the image (5 or 10 scan lines) and the non-linear stretch fills the screen with the rest. I have a similar setup as you do (myth, 9A60, 16:9 TV) and accomplished the same thing for my TV by using an alternate standard NTSC mode to send Live TV to the set. The TV is configured to automatically show standard 4:3 signals with the non-linear stretch, so my tv and cable look almost identical. I can see how this would be hard to do in software because you'd have to be scaling every frame in a way that's more computationally intense than just stretching or zooming linearly. I'm pretty sure it could be done on faster processors, though, or maybe with some non-linear OpenGL scaling or something. -- Eric Ladner _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users