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steve at priorityelectronics

Mar 4, 2008, 9:55 AM

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Videos not playing in full screen

Hello, i have a 55" hdtv that is a 4:3 (aka non widescreen) that has been
working great for me for the past 5 or so years. I've had mythtv on it for
the past year or so.

All of a sudden, yesterday i go home, turn on my mythtv and watch some live
tv (and recordings and videos), and the video is no longer full screen. The
menus are all fullscreen, and they look and work normal. The day before
yesterday, the playback was full screen.

Now it has a black border only to the left and right sides, about 2-3 inches
on either side. This is while watching 4:3 stuff, as i don't have HD on it.
It looks like the image is being squished a little bit.

What do i do? It seems like an X issue to me, but how do i fix this?

-Thanks
-Steve

mythtv at joserubio

Mar 4, 2008, 11:38 AM

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Re: Videos not playing in full screen [In reply to]

It may be an X issue or a change in the settings. But, I doubt it just happened all by itself. You need to track down what changes occurred that caused this.

Did you update your system? That's the only way that X could have changed. Of course, it could also be your TV, but I doubt it.

-jose-

Steve Peters - Priority Electronics <steve [at] priorityelectronics> wrote: Message Hello, i have a 55" hdtv that is a 4:3 (aka non widescreen) that has been working great for me for the past 5 or so years. I've had mythtv on it for the past year or so.

All of a sudden, yesterday i go home, turn on my mythtv and watch some live tv (and recordings and videos), and the video is no longer full screen. The menus are all fullscreen, and they look and work normal. The day before yesterday, the playback was full screen.

Now it has a black border only to the left and right sides, about 2-3 inches on either side. This is while watching 4:3 stuff, as i don't have HD on it. It looks like the image is being squished a little bit.

What do i do? It seems like an X issue to me, but how do i fix this?

-Thanks
-Steve
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steve at priorityelectronics

Mar 4, 2008, 1:06 PM

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Re: Videos not playing in full screen [In reply to]

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv] On Behalf Of Jose Rubio
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:38 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Videos not playing in full screen

It may be an X issue or a change in the settings. But, I doubt it just
happened all by itself. You need to track down what changes occurred that
caused this.

Did you update your system? That's the only way that X could have changed.
Of course, it could also be your TV, but I doubt it.

-jose-

Steve Peters - Priority Electronics <steve [at] priorityelectronics> wrote:

Hello, i have a 55" hdtv that is a 4:3 (aka non widescreen) that has been
working great for me for the past 5 or so years. I've had mythtv on it for
the past year or so.

All of a sudden, yesterday i go home, turn on my mythtv and watch some live
tv (and recordings and videos), and the video is no longer full screen. The
menus are all fullscreen, and they look and work normal. The day before
yesterday, the playback was full screen.

Now it has a black border only to the left and right sides, about 2-3 inches
on either side. This is while watching 4:3 stuff, as i don't have HD on it.
It looks like the image is being squished a little bit.

What do i do? It seems like an X issue to me, but how do i fix this?

-Thanks
-Steve
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C: 919-818-2342
jose [at] TriangleResidential

So, not knowing what changes may have happened, how do i find out? Where do
i start to look?

Also, it seems like x is fine cause the mythtv menus fill the screen, it's
just the playback that is not filling the screen. I tried overscanning by
all the way up to 10% (from the mythtv setting), and it didn't change at
all.

Any ideas?
-Thanks
-Steve

sarah at sarahhayes

Mar 4, 2008, 10:58 PM

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Re: Videos not playing in full screen [In reply to]

>
>
>
> So, not knowing what changes may have happened, how do i find
> out? Where do i start to look?
>
> Also, it seems like x is fine cause the mythtv menus fill the
> screen, it's just the playback that is not filling the screen. I
> tried overscanning by all the way up to 10% (from the mythtv
> setting), and it didn't change at all.
>
> Any ideas?
> -Thanks
> -Steve
>
It depends on your distro, but I'd assume most of the automated updater
ones keep a log somewhere in /var/log, possibly with a self explanitory
name.

Also worth looking in /etc/X11 and seeing if there is an xorg.conf.bak
in there with a recent date stamp.

As an alternate, if you could get a terminal open and manually run
mplayer <video file> to see if the same weirdness happens.

As to why... did anyone else make use of the system before you got
home? Likley suspects include partner, child, pets sitting on the remote.

Sarah

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Mar 5, 2008, 2:52 AM

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Re: Videos not playing in full screen [In reply to]

It sounds to me like the aspect ratio setting has changed from 4by3 to
16by9 so its now pillarboxing the output

On 3/5/08, Sarah Hayes <sarah [at] sarahhayes> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > So, not knowing what changes may have happened, how do i find
> > out? Where do i start to look?
> >
> > Also, it seems like x is fine cause the mythtv menus fill the
> > screen, it's just the playback that is not filling the screen. I
> > tried overscanning by all the way up to 10% (from the mythtv
> > setting), and it didn't change at all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > -Thanks
> > -Steve
> >
> It depends on your distro, but I'd assume most of the automated updater
> ones keep a log somewhere in /var/log, possibly with a self explanitory
> name.
>
> Also worth looking in /etc/X11 and seeing if there is an xorg.conf.bak
> in there with a recent date stamp.
>
> As an alternate, if you could get a terminal open and manually run
> mplayer <video file> to see if the same weirdness happens.
>
> As to why... did anyone else make use of the system before you got
> home? Likley suspects include partner, child, pets sitting on the remote.
>
> Sarah
>
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> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
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steve at priorityelectronics

Mar 5, 2008, 4:36 PM

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Re: Videos not playing in full screen [In reply to]

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:53 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Videos not playing in full screen

It sounds to me like the aspect ratio setting has changed from 4by3 to 16by9
so its now pillarboxing the output

On 3/5/08, Sarah Hayes <sarah [at] sarahhayes> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > So, not knowing what changes may have happened, how do i find
> > out? Where do i start to look?
> >
> > Also, it seems like x is fine cause the mythtv menus fill the
> > screen, it's just the playback that is not filling the screen. I
> > tried overscanning by all the way up to 10% (from the mythtv
> > setting), and it didn't change at all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > -Thanks
> > -Steve
> >
> It depends on your distro, but I'd assume most of the automated
> updater ones keep a log somewhere in /var/log, possibly with a self
> explanitory name.
>
> Also worth looking in /etc/X11 and seeing if there is an xorg.conf.bak
> in there with a recent date stamp.
>
> As an alternate, if you could get a terminal open and manually run
> mplayer <video file> to see if the same weirdness happens.
>
> As to why... did anyone else make use of the system before you got
> home? Likley suspects include partner, child, pets sitting on the
> remote.
>
> Sarah
>
> _______________________________________________
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> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
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>

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Nothing major from what I can tell. In the video preview window in myth
watch recordings, the previews are the correct ration, 4:3, and they fill
the entire 4:3 box.

When I'm watching videos and recordings, it's not a 16:9 ratio, it's just
like 4:3 but not quite 4:3, maybe something like 4:5, because the width is
not full. When it's 16:9, the width is full and the height is not.

This is very very strange.
-Steve

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steve at priorityelectronics

Mar 5, 2008, 10:18 PM

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Re: Videos not playing in full screen [In reply to]

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv] On Behalf Of Steve Peters -
Priority Electronics
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:36 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Videos not playing in full screen

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:53 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Videos not playing in full screen

It sounds to me like the aspect ratio setting has changed from 4by3 to 16by9
so its now pillarboxing the output

On 3/5/08, Sarah Hayes <sarah [at] sarahhayes> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > So, not knowing what changes may have happened, how do i find
> > out? Where do i start to look?
> >
> > Also, it seems like x is fine cause the mythtv menus fill the
> > screen, it's just the playback that is not filling the screen. I
> > tried overscanning by all the way up to 10% (from the mythtv
> > setting), and it didn't change at all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > -Thanks
> > -Steve
> >
> It depends on your distro, but I'd assume most of the automated
> updater ones keep a log somewhere in /var/log, possibly with a self
> explanitory name.
>
> Also worth looking in /etc/X11 and seeing if there is an xorg.conf.bak
> in there with a recent date stamp.
>
> As an alternate, if you could get a terminal open and manually run
> mplayer <video file> to see if the same weirdness happens.
>
> As to why... did anyone else make use of the system before you got
> home? Likley suspects include partner, child, pets sitting on the
> remote.
>
> Sarah
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

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Nothing major from what I can tell. In the video preview window in myth
watch recordings, the previews are the correct ration, 4:3, and they fill
the entire 4:3 box.

When I'm watching videos and recordings, it's not a 16:9 ratio, it's just
like 4:3 but not quite 4:3, maybe something like 4:5, because the width is
not full. When it's 16:9, the width is full and the height is not.

This is very very strange.
-Steve

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OK, by going with the svn build, the not full screen problem is pretty much
fixed. Now it's just a half inch from full screen, but I think I can figure
it it out. My issue now is that the OSD flickers a lot, but when I pull up
the menu and change the playback to progressive (default is auto detect),
that issue is fixed.....so my question: how do I have it set to progressive
by default?

-Thanks

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