[mythtv-users] Aspect ration wierdness?

[Thomas Mashos]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Jan Johansson <j2 at mupp.net> wrote:
> > (Trunk, Ubuntu 10.4, PVR350)
> >
> >
> >
> > So, my Cable provider gave me a new STB (Motorola VIP 1929) when my old
> one
> > died, and I am having aspect ratio problems.
> >
> > I have tried all the settings in the box (One setting, two choises) and
> none
> > makes any difference.
> >
> >
> >
> > 4:3 programming looks fine.
> >
> > 16:9 gets compressed into 4:3. (But, when connected straight to the TV,
> > everything works nicely)
> >
> >
> >
> > So, what I would LIKE to do as a remedy is have a H-stretch that does NOT
> > increase V-size at all. Is that possible?
> >
> > Or better yet, does someone have an idea on why this is happening?
>
> Have you checked your display size settings in xorg.conf?  I recently
> put together a new system and had some similar issues (4:3 would play
> back fine, 16:9 would be distorted with black bars above and below the
> image).  I followed the wiki page of defining a display size and also
> defining dpi and everything worked.
>
> Also, when you say that you changed the settings in the STB, how
> exactly did you do that?  Did you go into the service by turning off
> the box and holding select when turning it on (or something like
> that)?
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What model TV is it?
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