<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/12 Rod Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@rodsbooks.com">mythtv@rodsbooks.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Saturday 12 December 2009 03:22:01 am Thomas Mørch wrote:<br>
> Is it possible to stretch video horizontally, WITHOUT doing it vertical?<br>
><br>
> I'm trying to get everything shown, but so far, if I wan't to see the whole<br>
> video frame, then I get black borders on the sides, even with 16:9 content.<br>
> So it seems that the video is squeezed a little.<br>
><br>
> I tried to set fill to horizontal stretch, but that also stretches the<br>
> video vertically, which I do not want to do..<br>
<br>
</div></div>First, do you see black borders just in the video, or in your MythTV menus, as<br>
well? If the former, then have you configured MythTV to use separate video<br>
modes for menus and for video? If you DON'T see borders in your menus AND if<br>
you've NOT configured MythTV to use different video modes, then it sounds<br>
like the borders are in the source material. If so, you should be able to see<br>
the borders in the previews shown in the recording list, or when playing the<br>
files in mplayer or other tools in a window. IIRC, this can be fixed by<br>
adjusting the displacement and scaling settings in MythTV. Go into the<br>
playback settings; these options are on the second page. I'm not 100%<br>
positive those are the correct settings, though; I could be confusing them<br>
with something else.<br>
<br>
If you see black borders in menus OR if you've set the system to use different<br>
video modes for playback, then it sounds to me like your video configuration<br>
is off -- or alternatively, that your TV/monitor isn't properly synced to<br>
your video card's output. (To be sure, if you're using a different mode for<br>
playback than for menus, you should disable this option.) If I'm right, you<br>
might be able to improve matters by using xvidtune to sync your display to<br>
your screen and/or by adjusting the picture's position on your TV/monitor. If<br>
you use xvidtune, you may need to create a custom Modeline from its results<br>
to put in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It was only video, when I changed settings so the theme fitted the screen, then the video had black borders, and if I changed theme so that I had full screen video, then the theme was cropped at the borders.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After fiddling with resolutions, x/y scaling for 3 days, I found a setting in the database "GuiSizeForTV" that was set to 1. After changing that to 0, and changing x/y scaling I finaly have a "perfect" picture.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Only thing that I wonder about, is that my resolution for the screen is only 680x480 pixels, even though i'm in the PAL area...</div><div><br></div><div>/ Thomas</div><div><br></div></div>