Hi,

If it helps anyone: I have successfully tweaked suitable settings for displaying on MythTV on a 42" plasma screen on a PAL UK TV. My TV is capable of 1024 x 768 resolutions.

from within Mythtv (appearance settings, GUI)

Select “Run GUI in window”
Width: 987
Height: 730
X Offset: 11
Y Offset: 34

The screen was previously cropped on the edges of my TV all the way around. I had the same problem on a regular TV (which normally use 640 x 480 as the resolution) and from the knoppmythwiki it said PAL UK users should use:

Width: 624
Height: 440
X Offset: 41
Y Offset: 24

Also I went for the following font sizes on the regular TV:

Default Font set to Large
Small: 16
Medium: 22
Large: 28

=======System
VIA EPIA MII
S-Video Tv Out from motherboard

forgot to mention....

Also need to set video card Tv-out to Overscan in the config file.

If I leave XF86Config-4 as its default settings then the tv screen is not fully maximised. In order to get full screen usage I enabled overscan for my VIA device in the XF86Config-4 file. That, however, cropped the edges and was solved by setting the GUI resolution and offsets to that above.

What did you add to XF86Config-4 to enable overscan, and was it the XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11?

Better still, could you post your XF86Config-4?

Never mind, I got the info from another one of your posts!

Just in-case anyone's interested, or googling for this.. I added the following line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to enable overscan on my epia motherboard :

Option "TVVScan" "over"

Directly under the following lines :

Driver "via"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0"