[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Mac OS X Monitor Aspect Ratio

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Mon Jan 18 04:07:50 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Dave LeBer <dleber at codeferous.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, William <william_munson at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dave LeBer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've just setup a new 0.22 MythTV backend and have upgraded my Mac Mini
>>> to the matching frontend binary from <http://www.thesniderpad.com>
>>>
>>> If I run the frontend on my MacBook Pro I can configure the 'Monitor
>>> Aspect Ratio' in Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> Appearance -> Screen Settings.
>>> However on the Mac Mini that option does not exist. This means that the Mini
>>> thinks that the tv is 4:3 when it is not, and since most of the content is
>>> 4:3... ugly.
>>>
>>> I noticed that parameter was saved in an XineramaMonitorAspectRatio entry
>>> in the settings table for the MBP so I tried adding that value for the Mini
>>> and restarting the frontend. Unfortunately that had no effect.
>>>
>>> The Mini is a little over a year or so old:
>>>
>>> Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz
>>> Graphics: Intel GMA 950 64MB
>>>
>>> Basically what I want to be able to do is inform mythfrontend on the Mini
>>> that the display is indeed 16:9. Any ideas about how (if) I can do that?

I haven't paid attention to this thread at all, but why do you need to
tell it that? Mine knows this by the output resolution alone... But I
swear there's a frontend pref somewhere you can twiddle, if need be.

>> Not sure about a mac mini however if it runs a flavor of xorg then you
>> need to set a custom modeline in xorg.conf along with the options to tell it
>> to ignore your detected settings.
>
> Thanks William,
> I'll look into that. Given that Mythfrontend runs as a self contained app
> bundle on OS X, I guess the next question would be where would it look for
> that xorg.conf file?

Mac OS X doesn't run Xorg, it has its own native windowing system. (At
least, not for its native windowing system. You can run Xorg atop the
native windowing system, but that's not relevant here.).

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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