[mythtv-users] 720x480 tall and squished

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Thu Mar 23 19:33:13 UTC 2006


Dan Littlejohn wrote:
> On 3/23/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
>   
>> Have you tried 800x600 and forcing a 4:3 aspect ratio? I had this
>> problem when I went from
>> my PVR 350's TVOUT to my nvidia 5200, and I solved it by turning off all
>> overscan settings
>> in MythTV and instead using overscan in xorg.conf.
>>     

[...]

> I am not using any of the myth overscan settings and am setting the
> overscan in xorg.conf.
>
> Do you happen to have the xorg.conf setting to force 4:3?  I think
> mine is set for the displaysize 250 180.
>   

No, by "force 4:3", I'm talking about in MythTV. You can press 'm' while 
watching LiveTV
to pull up the menu and set the aspect ratio from there. There is also a 
setting in the frontend
to permanently set it.

Sorry, I'm out of ideas beyond that.

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net



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