Hmmm.

The Knew KnoppMyth (F27) is really great! Love it!

After getting some help on another forum, I got the NVidia drivers installed and working. An interesting "side effect" is that even though I record my standard cable in 4:3, and even though when I watch this this through a widescreen frontend through the net the video is appropriately boxed on the sides to maintain the proportions, on the main box-- no matter what I choose for the "W" setting, the 4:3 shows always get distorted to fill the widescreen display.

Odd.

I've done some searching on "nvidia" and "fill" and "aspect ratio", but all the threads I find seem to be about HD issues, and downgrading the driver.... I can't seem to find any way of making the shows display right.

Interested if anyone else has seen this, and if there's a solution. Not a show-stopper, but would be nice to make John Stewart's head once again taller than it is wide.....

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Check to see what your "AspectOverride" setting is. I forget where it is in the settings UI...

TJC's response is more likely.. but i was wandering through the mythtv wiki yesterday and found this...

but i had thought this was no longer relevent with xorg.conf?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size

I'm having the same issue... but I think I might have figured out why... (I won't have time to experiment with it till next week though.)

My xorg.conf file only has a line for 1920x1200, while my LCD is a 1920x1080. My guess is that the video card is sending it 1920x1200, and the LCD is just crunching it vertically to the 1920x1080. That would explain at least some of the squishing. (Neither is 4:3, so I'd think I should have some bars on the side either way)

The way I initially noticed this, is I put some 1920x1080 images in my pictures area and noticed that when I displayed them... they had bars at the top and bottom... and I went... huh? While digging, I found my xorg.conf has no line for my true screen rez.

Next week, I'll try backing up my xorg.conf file, and see if I can get a line in there for my true screen rez. How does the xorg.conf file initially get created? Are all these settings in the myth install, or does this get built from what the video card reports back from the display capabilities?

Thanks much,

-Steve

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