[mythtv-users] 16:9 zoom/stretch and 0.21

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/08/2008 08:46 AM, backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org wrote:
> Here's the other potential deal breaker that is my question:  My display
> is a 28-inch monitor at 1920x1200.  We frequently watch many (most) SD
> recordings using the 16:9 zoom setting available from the OSD.  This
> cuts off a little bit, but fills the whole screen (i.e. even more than
> 1920x1080), and, well, we like it.  Technically, the image is getting
> zoomed to 16:10.
>   

Only because your display is improperly configured.  If you set your 
DisplaySize such that it's a 16:10 ratio, Myth will actually know that 
you have a 16:10 screen.

> This option seems to be missing from the 0.21 that comes with Mythbuntu
> 8.04.  I forget the exact settings that are available, but I believe
> there were only four choices rather than the six that were there before,
> and the zoom/stretch ones were missing.
>   

Full zoom is for 16:9 material letterboxed in a 4:3 picture (which, on a 
16:9 or 16:10 screem would be both letterboxed and pillarboxed).  Half 
zoom is a compromise that does a 14:9 display, allowing you to zoom a 
4:3 picture (which does not contain letterboxed images) to full width of 
your screen without changing aspect (i.e. making tall/thin people) and 
while losing a "minimum, but acceptable" amount of the top and bottom of 
the picture.

> Is this a new "feature".  Is there some setting I need to change in
> setup to get the old behavior back?

Nope.  Just need to learn how it works now that it's been done properly.  :)

Mike