<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">George Mari</b> <<a href="mailto:george_mythusers@mari1938.org">george_mythusers@mari1938.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Ribe wrote:<br>> On 10/28/07, Chris Ribe <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hello all,<br>>> I am struggling to get my frontend to play video correctly on my new
<br>>> TV. It is a 1080i RPTV that I have working with a custom 1080x540<br>>> modeline. When I playback recording or watch live TV, I get horizontally<br>>> squished video, as if myth believes there are square pixels.
<br>>><br>>> I am running last weeks SVN, the most recent Nvidia drivers with a 7200GS<br>>> graphics card, and I have followed the instructions in several howtos on the<br>>> wiki, which have lead me to this
xorg.conf (edited to remove irrelevant<br>>> information):<br>>><br>>><br>>> Section "Device"<br>>> Identifier "7200GS"<br>>> Driver "nvidia"
<br>>> BusID "PCI:2:0:0"<br>>> Option "NoBandWidthTest" "true"<br>>> Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"<br>>> Option "UseEDID" "false"
<br>>> Option "UseEdidFreqs" "false"<br>>> Option "ModeValidation" "DFP-0: NoEdidModes,NoMaxPClkCheck,<br>>> NoVesaModes,<br>>> AllowInterlacedModes,NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoHorizSyncCheck,
<br>>> NoVertRefres<br>>> hCheck"<br>>> Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true"<br>>> Option "UseFBDev" "false"<br>
>> EndSection<br>>><br>>><br>>> Section "Monitor"<br>>> Identifier "51S500"<br>>> Option "DPMS"<br>>> DisplaySize
243.84 137.16<br>>> HorizSync 15-46<br>>> VertRefresh 59-61<br>>> Modeline "720hitachi" 79.5 1920 2088 2142 2412 540 572 576 592<br>>> -hsync -vs<br>>> ync<br>
>> EndSection<br>>><br>>><br>>> From my understanding, the combination of the "UseEdidDpi" "false" tag,<br>>> the DisplaySize tag, and the resolution should lead the drive to compute a
<br>>> non-square DPI and video should display correctly. Unfortunately, this<br>>> isn't happening.<br>>><br>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.<br>><br>><br>> So, I was just googling things like "xorg" "DPI" and "non square pixels,"
<br>> and one search returned my original message from the archives as it's 2nd<br>> result. That was disheartening.<br>><br>> Anyhow, it caused me to reread my own message and discover that I said<br>> 1080x540 when I meant 1920x540.
<br>><br>> So, 1920x540 is the resolution I'm working at, 100,50 is the DPI I'm looking<br>> for.<br>><br><br>I'm not an expert on non square pixels, but when you say the video is<br>horizontally squished, does the image not extend all the way to the left
<br>and right edges of your display?<br><br>Are your recordings in 4:3 aspect or 16:9?</blockquote><div><br><br>4:3 recordings are displayed at a 2:3 aspect ratio. It is a 16:9 display that myth is treating like a 32:9 display because the resolution is set to 1920x540.
<br><br><br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 416 0648<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>