[mythtv-users] Video modes - aspect ratios

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 14:35, Graeme Hilton wrote:
> All,
>
> This is more of a system configuration issue than a myth issue, but as
> we all use a variety of display hardware I thought I'd be able to tap a
> few brains.
>
> I have a video card with a TV-Out and a VGA (a Radeon 9600XT).  It's
> connected to an 8" LCD panel via the VGA and to my home theatre system
> (Denon DHT500).  This feeds a 28" widescreen CRT through a SCART socket.
>
> The 8" panel is 800x600 native resolution and that's what the system is
> set to run at.  I ran the fglrxconfig from ATI to set up the TV-Out and
> attached you can see the resulting xorg.conf.  X is cloning the output
> from the VGA to the TV-Out.  I have tried the Dual Head configuration,
> but X refuses to start. (I can dig out some logs if anyone is interested.)
>
> My problem is that when I turn on the TV it is receiving a 4:3 format
> signal, with black bars down the sides.  I think this is because the
> signal from the TV-Out is 4:3.  How can I get that to become a 16:9 format?
>
> Ideally I'd like 4:3 on the VGA and 16:9 on the TV.  Does anyone have a
> similar setup?

you would need to change the resolution for the feed to the TV to a 16:9 feed.

so 800:450 would work and be relatively close to what you have.

-- 
Steve