stretch xorg display?

shanenin · 10-28-2004, 02:48 PM

I have a freevo box using an nvidia card for tv out. It is working acceptibly good. One thing I would like to fix is this. On my 27 inch television, there is about a 1inch space of black above and below the picture. I would like to be able to stretch this image to fill the whole tv.

shanenin · 11-01-2004, 02:16 PM

bump

has anyone had similar problem or success at fixing this? Does this seem like an nvivda issue or more just a general xorg issue.

shanenin · 11-02-2004, 02:15 PM

what is "overscan"? can that be used to enlarge my image on the tv? I don't mind if I lose a little of the picture on the left and right sides, so long as I get all of the tv screen filled vertically. Is there an option in my xorg.conf that would allow this?

Matir · 11-02-2004, 02:32 PM

What is the big deal of that black space? It's very common with tv-out because the resolutions of monitors and tvs are not the same. (Though, IIRC, the aspect ratio should be).

shanenin · 11-02-2004, 02:46 PM

if I am watching full screen stuff it does not really bother me. When I am watching a widescreen movie, which is already very small on my tv, gets even smaller.

when I used this same card with windows, the nvidia drivers allowed me to stretch the display, I was hoping I could do this with linux also.

jcspray · 11-02-2004, 03:12 PM

If I understand you correctly, what you want to do is stretch out a widescreen move to fill up your 4:3 screen. Your movie player may be able to do this for you. In Xine, for instance, pressing 'a' toggles through aspect ratios.