[mythtvnz] Display Problem and some info

[Duncan Ritchie]

Duncan Ritchie wrote:
> Well it seems the problem happens with anything played with the 
> Internal Player.
>  
> Still no idea why.
>  
> Duncan
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> I've been lurking in the background for sometime myself so here is 
> some info on my setup and a question.
>  
> I setup my first myth box two and a half years ago with a PVR350 
> starting with SUSE then quickly moving to FC4 then FC5.  Hardware is 
> minimal with a Radeon 9550 video card (now using the DVI out to the 
> HDMI projector).  Recently I purchased a Panasonic PA900 projector and 
> screen so I have 720p with a 120" widescreen setup.
>  
> Overall it has been good but and the setup/configuration has improved 
> a lot over the time I have been playing.   I never bothered to setup 
> the external channel changing for the sky decoder so it has had 
> limited use for watching TV.
>  
> This week I got a Skystar 2 this week and installed it today.  It was 
> very easy to install especially compared to the PVR350 however I have 
> a display issue with live TV.
>  
> It looks like the picture is stretched vertically with a large amount 
> of the picture off the bottom of the screen and some significant 
> quality issues.  Any suggestions?
>  
> Thanks
>  
>  
> Duncan

Nick Rout wrote:
>What resolution is your X server running at? Mine was confused for some 
>time because I was running 1024x768 on a 16:9 widescreen. But the quality
was ?
>fine. My output was through the VGA connector.

It is running at 1920x1080 (1080p) on a 16:9 widescreen projector.  From
what I have been able to work out the Internal Player is stretching the
vertically by about double.  Logos etc look stretched as well. All of the
channel information is off the bottom of the screen.  I tried setting the
screen size in the appearance settings which did nothing.  I have tried all
of the aspect settings in the player settings screen.

Mplayer works perfectly.  And I tried Mythfrontend on a VNC session to a
1024x768 running as a separate X environment and it worked perfectly.

Duncan