[mythtv-users] Displaying 1080i on 4:3 standard TV

[Mike Schlottman]

I'm going to try playing back a 1080i recording with mplayer tonight.
What does the -vo X11 option do?  I couldn't figure it out from the man
page. I'll check it out xine as well.  If I cant get either of them to
display properly, I'll probably upgrade the nvidia drivers.  I'm
currently running 7174.  If all else fails I'll check it out in M$ MCE. 

Also, I am not using an onboard video.  It is an AGP FX 5200.

	mike	


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Lee Koloszyc
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:02 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Displaying 1080i on 4:3 standard TV
> 
> Mike Schlottman wrote:
> >
> > First a question. Is it even possible to display all of a 1080i
> > broadcast on a standard 4:3 TV?
> >
> > When I try to do this I get a display that looks like the picture
has
> > been shifted to the right. There is a wide black bar on the right,
> > with the expected black bars on top and bottom. If I use the aspect
> > override settings, the best I can do is a larger picture that is
> > butted against the left side and has a portion of the right side cut
> off.
> >
> > I'd like to hear from anyone who has ever seen this work, just so I
> > know it can be done. If you have pointers on how it might be done,
> > that would be great too.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
> I am pretty sure it can work as it should scale to the 4:3TV. Assuming
> you are using the onboard videocard, I would wager that it has the
same
> problem my ATI has. As Kevin Kuphal stated about the ATI card:
> " Previous posts to the list indicate this is an issue with the
hardware
> scaler in the ATI chip not scaling the HD content properly. "
> So to test this theory out make a 1080i HD recording and then play it
> back using 'mplayer -vo X11 filename ' and see if it displays
properly.
> As a temporary solution (and since my TV is only Standard Definition),
I
> just transcode anything recorded on the 1080i channels as the 720p
> channels playback fine.
> 
> 
> Lee
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