MythTV and Ultimate Edition 2.2

[buschbarber]

I am a big fan of MythTV and I have installed and configured it several times under various Distros of Ubuntu. Currently, I am outputting Ultimate Edition 2.2 to my 50" Sony HDTV at 1900x1080. I am using a WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI card. I have Time Warner Cable and I have a splitter on the Coax In line sending one side to my HD Cable box and the other to my WinTV card Analog Cable input. I went through all the Setting for the MythTV Frontend and it appears to be set up for 1900x1080. The MythTV window fills the display, but when I tune in a channel, it appears as 4:3 instead of 16:9, so it is more Square, in the center of the display, than Rectangular and filling the display.

Secondly, I have configured Myth Weather and Myth Movie Times, as I have used them before and they were somewhat convenient. Myth Movie Times displays all my local theaters and what time each movie is playing. Myth Weather is configured just to display Current Conditions and Three Day Forcast, for my city, however, when I go to the Info Center menu and choose Weather, all I get is a partial display of the word Load and nothing else. It always used to work before.

[Cell]

Did you save a copy of your mythconfig file from the old system?

[buschbarber]

No - The other system had an Integrated Intel Video adapter as well as an Nvidia 8400 PCI card. When I set the BIOS to PCI and booted Windows, everything worked fine, but when I tried to boot Linux, I had to change the BIOS setting to Onboard in order to boot from any Linux boot CD. With Ubuntu 1.8, I could install the Nvidia drivers but I had to leave the BIOS setting at Onboard. After choosing Ubuntu from the Grub Menu, it would automatically switch to the Nvidia driver. With 1.9 and above, it wouldn't do that and I stopped using MythTV. That PC is running Windows 7 32bit, but not Linux. This new PC is the first time, since then, that I have installed MythTV.

[Cell]

Well...I don't know.I do know myth has a feature that you can adjust x,and y for the front end,and make those settings universal all around.If you had it before,then you can do it again.Just goto go through the frontend settings again.

[buschbarber]

I will go through the Backend Settings again.

I used Synaptic to install MythMovies and MythWeather. MythMovies works, but MythWeather is blank. I did a Google search for Configuring MythWeather and found a link to MythTV Plugins. They include many plugins for MythTV. I extracted the files and ran ./configure --enable-all, but I received messages indicating that there were some things missing.

How can I straighten out MythWeather, in particular?

[buschbarber]

I went through the MythTV Backend settings, but they have nothing to do with the Display. According to the MythTV Manual, the Display Resolution is determined by the Desktop Resolution. You have to go into Screen Setup Wizard. It reads 1920x1030. There is very little in the way of control.

The MythTV Window fills the Display, but the LiveTV, for example, displays at approximately 4:3 instead of 16:9. I cannot see anything in the Frontend Settings that can change that.

I remember now that another MythTV Plugin was MythArchive. I needed that in order to Burn DVD's of my recordings.

There is also supposed to be a way of Scheduling Recordings, over the Internet, if I am away from home. I don't know if MythBrowser has something to do with that.

[Cell]

I use Mythbuntu control centre from synaptics to set mythtv up.Its a nice little gui that guides you through the basics,and auto downloads what you need...i.e all the plugins,and what not.


As for the display issue....does a hd output fill the screen?I'm thinking its going to scale down 4:1 output,or just show it as it is because you cant display it properly on a hd set....but I don"t have an hd tv so I don't know.How bout installing tv time from synaptics,and seeing if it will fill the screen?If it doesn't then you know its probably not an myth issue.

I've been meaning to ask too...Thats a hybrid tuner right?How does it work with digital in linux?

[Cell]

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XorgConfMonitorSectionForTV

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidiaPropri ... VOutFormat

[Cell]

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual: ... n_Frontend


in screen settings section...

Width in pixels of window that myth uses.

A normal TV (without MythTV) has a 5%-10% overscan. In other words, 5%-10% of the image is past the visible edges of the screen. If you adjust your MythTV box's output to overscan your display device, and uncheck "Use GUI size for TV playback" (below), you can use this and the following 3 GUI size and position settings to shrink the GUI so that the GUI is not overscanned (and you can see all of it).

But I still think you just have to dig in and play with your xorg....The fix with the tv was more like a band aid.

http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/install ... en-tv.html

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan

[buschbarber]

I ran the following command per a suggestion posted for someone else in one of the above links

rich@UE23:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "Setting mode"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select+0+0"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1920x1080_60i"
rich@UE23:~$