[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio

[R Kannan]

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> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 23:49:26 -0500
> From: Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio
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> Greetings Mythizens I switched video cards in my Myth box today and as
> expected tearing is greatly reduced. What I didn't expect was losing
> the ability to fill my screen with recordings that are less than full
> size to begin with. The "W" key still shows the different modes, full,
> V stretch, and H stretch, etc, but the picture is not modified. I had
> a MSI ATI card and switched to an EVGA nVida card. I don't know if it
> is related or not, but it is coincident, the new video card gave
> bigger launcher icons, it's now ubuntu 2D, and a little googling
> suggested a "script.py" would and did remedy the over sized icons.
> I'm running 0.27 fixes in an Ubuntu 12.04 desktop environment.
> Suggestions on how to restore W key functionality?
>
> Daryl
I had the exact same problem on my myth machine when I did not have
nVidia drivers installed. Once that was done, the problem went away.