playback overscan problem after 0.21 update

[billionmonkeys]

I'm on mythbuntu 7.10 and I pulled down the 0.21 update and since I have been having overscan issues on playback.

The main gui still fills the entire screen, but as soon as i play back a video there are these two black bars on the left and right side of the video for some reason. I have no problem with overscan in the regular gui, but during playback these things show up. arrgh! any idea what settings I have to change to make them go away? I've tried fiddling with various playback settings (horizontal scaling, different playback profiles) but they don't seem to affect the black bars that show up on the left and right. livetv has the same problem.

my tv out device is an nvidia 7100gs with overscan set to 0.8 in xorg.conf
using svideo output.


suggestions as to what to look at would be appreciated.

[jbman]

i have the problem where its getting too big. the gui is fine, the frontend is fine but playing a file via the internal player its too big on the sides so its cutting off the edges left and right.

[freymann]

I'm on mythbuntu 7.10 and I pulled down the 0.21 update and since I have been having overscan issues on playback.

my tv out device is an nvidia 7100gs with overscan set to 0.8 in xorg.conf
using svideo output.


You can go to a terminal and type:


nvidia-settings


(not sure if you need to prefix that with sudo)

Or go into the Mythtv Control Center, proprietary drivers, nvidia settings.

Adjust the overscan setting in there. It shows you the result in real time. Very handy!

[majoridiot]

You can go to a terminal and type:


nvidia-settings


(not sure if you need to prefix that with sudo)

Or go into the Mythtv Control Center, proprietary drivers, nvidia settings.

Adjust the overscan setting in there. It shows you the result in real time. Very handy!

this is true only for some nvidia chipsets. unfortunately, not all chipsets have overscan support yet.

if overscan adjustment isn't available in nvidia-settings, there are also settings in frontend setup,
under playback. try tweaking those. adjusting them fixes over/underscan issues with my tuners.

[tgm4883]

Have you tried using the screen setup wizard in .21?

[KillerKiwi]

I use the nvtv tool to bump up the overscan

nvtv -t -s Large

or

nvtv -t -s Huge

the nivida settings dosnt have overscan but nvtv still works

[jbman]

Have you tried using the screen setup wizard in .21?

Where is that?

[tgm4883]

Where is that?

It's in the frontend under setup.

[jbman]

yeh in setup now where?

[laga]

Oops. Yeah, you don't see it because mythbuntu-control-centre comes with an old version of the menu file.

I guess if you do:


cd /usr/share/mythtv
sudo cp main_settings.xml main_settings.xml.mcc
sudo cp main_settings.xml.diverted main_settings.xml
[code]

you can see the "screen setup wizard" menu item.

After you've done your changes, you should revert to the old xml file:

[code]
sudo cp main_settings.xml.mcc main_settings.xml

[billionmonkeys]

ive figured out my problem. there appears to be a bug in myth 0.21 where, when you resize the menu display it screws up the playback, even if you don't check off the button for use the same size for playback. the workaround for this is to tell it to use a separate video resolution for playback.

[tgm4883]

ive figured out my problem. there appears to be a bug in myth 0.21 where, when you resize the menu display it screws up the playback, even if you don't check off the button for use the same size for playback. the workaround for this is to tell it to use a separate video resolution for playback.

Link to this bug? This doesn't seem to be the case for me