[mythtv] [PATCH] OSD glitch - starts as 4:3 and corrects to 16:9

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 23:45 +1000, Matt Doran wrote:
> It wasn't the constructor.  It took me a while to figure out how the 
> video playback process works ... but I got there eventually.  :)    In a 
> method in NuppelVideoPlayer called OpenDummy which sets up the dummy 
> video while waiting for the channel to tune....  it sets the video size 
> arbitrarily to 720x576 and aspect of 1.3333.  At this point we don't 
> have access to the display size.  We don't know that until in the 
> InitVideo method.
> 
> So my fix was to set the force the video aspect to the display aspect if 
> we're in dummy mode.  It works very nicely.  Now when I start to watch 
> live tv, the OSD appears at the full width (16:9).  I don't get the 
> ugliness of switching from the default 4:3 to 16:9 when the video starts.
> 
> The patch was only a couple of lines, and it results in much more 
> polished results. :)   
> 
> What do you think?

It looks like a decent enough hack. It will still chose the
wrong video aspect ratio whenever you view a non-16:9 stream
on a 16:9 screen, but at least it will default to filling the
screen for 16:9 screens so it's an improvement. What I would
like to see down the road is some intelligent guessing as to
the aspect ratio. If we are about to view channel X and the
last time we viewed it the resolution and aspect ratio were Y,
then we should start with Y when we start on channel X. If we
are using xrandr we really want to minimize these changes.

Can you open a ticket with your hack?

-- Daniel