Firstly, this is my first posting here and my first time back into Linux for quite some time (Last time I compiled a kernel was back when Modules were first implemented)<br><br>I have a VIA EDEN EN15000 running Fedora Core 5 and MythTV
0.20 installed as per the instructions at <a href="http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/">http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/</a>. At the moment I do not have a TV capture card and am using MythTV as a user friendly MP3/Ogg and DVD player. The only real obstacles so far have been the
2.6.18 kernel being broken on the EN15000 (had to recompile with some ACPI stuff commented out) and of course enabling DMA on the DVD driver.<br><br>I have digital audio output from the RCA jack straight into my Home Theater system and video from the SVGA connector straight into a Philips widescreen LCD TV running at 1024x768.
<br><br>So far everything is working great - I can play audio files and CD's directly to the Home Theater, and I can play DVD's using the internal DVD player (something I still can't get mplayer or Xine to do - Looks like it might be something to do with decrypting the DVD data stream - maybe I haven't got libdecss working right yet although xine-check gives no errors or warnings, just a lot of lines starting with [good])
<br><br>The only problem is the DVD playback is 'squished' - i.e. letterbox output. Apparently, mplayer can scale playback but I would much rather use the internal DVD player. I've had a look through all the configuration screens, the MythTV documentation, the wiki, the FAQ, this user list, and google (that's where I found the mplayer scaling trick) and so far I haven't seen any mention of the internal DVD player being able to do vertical scaling to fill the screen. Does such an option exist?
<br><br>If not, I'll start having a deeper look at getting Xine and mplayer working instead.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br><br>Graeme<br>