[mythtv-users] Aspect Ratio Help

[Nick]

On 29/10/06, Joel Jacobs <jj7499 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a MythTV noobie and It seems I'm having some trouble getting hdtv to
> display properly.  I'm using an Asus Pundit with integrated geforce 6
> video.  I'm using the folowing modeline:
>
> ModeLine "ATSC-720-120p" 148.5 1280 1296 1360 1650 720 722 728 750
>
>
> This is 1280x720 (16x9) 120hz vertical refresh.  The 120hz vert was
> chosen because it's divisible by 24,30 and 60 and all modes seem to play
> very smoothly.  I have the vertical scan on my monitor reduced so that
> the raster is actually 16x9.  Problem is I always have black bars at the
> top and bottom of the raster with aspect override "off".  Shouldn't an
> ATSC broadcast fill a 1280x720 raster completely? When I quit playback
> the MythTV Menus fill the raster completely as does my Xfce desktop.
>
> I've gone through all the settings I can find but I must be missing
> something.
> Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here.  I will
> eventually have this connected to a 1280x720 projector and I need it to
> fill the screen!

Have you got DisplaySize set correctly in your xorg.conf file?

http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size

Nick

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