[mythtv-users] Wrong aspect ratio, weird fonts after upgrading to ubuntu gutsy 7.10

[Joan Vallés]

2007/10/21, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>
> On 10/21/2007 07:12 AM, Dean Harding wrote:
> > Joan Vallés wrote:
> >
> >> Just upgraded to Gutsy (7.10) and I've started to have problems when
> >> viewing recordings. My box is connected to a Samsung LCD TV (16:9)
> which
> >> has a resolution of 1360x768, before upgrading when I watched 4:3
> >> material with zoom off it played well just with two black bars on the
> >> side; now it fills all the screen. On the other side, 16:9 material
> gets
> >> letter boxed and it should not.
> >>
> > There's a setting somewhere under Setup->Something (TV Setttings
> > possibly?)->Playback (can't remember exactly) where you specify your
> > screen's aspect ratio.
> >
> > I found that after I upgraded to Gutsy, that setting had been changed to
> > 4:3 (I believe it may have had to do with the NVIDIA drivers being
> > updated, possibly). Once I set that to 16:9, it all worked fine again.
> Actually, the setting wasn't changed.  It just didn't appear until you
> upgraded X (the new X does things differently--not sure whether it's a
> bug or what).  So, you set it for the first time after upgrading.  It
> shouldn't be required unless you have multiple displays (and the newest
> versions of Myth trunk and 0.20-fixes SVN) now work with even the new X
> to find out if it's needed, so you'll see the setting disappear again
> and it will do the right thing.
>
> Mike
>
>
Hey thanks both of you, I changed the setting and works (aspect ratio & osd
fonts). Just for the records, setting can be found in: Config -> Config ->
Aspect? (not sure because I use myth in Catalan and not English) 2nd screen.

Joan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20071021/62b138c5/attachment.htm