[mythtv-users] GUI size vs. video size

[Curtis Stanford]

I'm not sure what you meant by the last part about 'fullscreen mode' but it 
doesn't seem like it would be terribly difficult to provide a setting like 
the GUI width/height screen that doesn't affect the video as well. Or maybe a 
setting that would tell the theme where to start drawing and how much room it 
has to work with. Then again, I'm probably over-simplifying the whole thing.

On November 24, 2003 03:40 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > OK, I've seen messages about this before but I still think the situation
> > stinks so I want to see want others think.
> >
> > I'm using an EPIA M10000 box with the latest VIA binary drivers for X
> > windows. This driver has an overscan setting for use with TV's which
> > works quite well. Of course, using this setting results in all the mythtv
> > GUI stuff being cut off on all four edges. Adjusting the "Screen setting"
> > (i.e. GUI width, height and offsets) fixes the GUI problem but screws up
> > the video which was quite fine before thank you very much.
> >
> > My only choice seems to be to set the X driver to "underscan" and then
> > try to adjust both the "Screen setting" options and "Overscan" options to
> > try and get both the GUI and video to look right. After quite a number of
> > tries, I never could get this to look right. Not nearly as good as
> > letting the X driver to the overscan for me.
> >
> > So, why can't we have a setting to "inset" only the GUI so I can take
> > advantage of the overscan setting in the X driver but still be able to
> > see all of the GUI? Seems to be a much simpler solution, at least for
> > other people out there in this situation.
> >
> > Thanks for listening.
>
> I listened and I feel your pain. I'm using nVidia TVOverScan
> at 1.0 to try to align scan lines and am aware of the same sort
> of problems. I imagine people using PVR-350s for TV-out are up
> against the same thing. The main problems is that theme designs
> are not aware of the NTSC "title safe" and "action safe" areas.
> The secondary workaround/solution is that MythTV no longer has
> a 'fullscreen' mode separate from the GUI dimensions.