On Friday 20 April 2007 20:50:16 Alasdair Campbell wrote:
My experiences with a 16:9 TV are different but theres some issues with scaling & OSD that I would like to fix..
Maybe it's just a config-problem, at least it's a bit non-intuitive :)
I noticed that any scaling of the OSD results in quite poor text.
Yes, that's also my experience so far.
However :-), I would prefer it if the OSD stayed at 16:9 resolution all the time, with just the video layer beneath changing per content aspect ratio. I'm not sure how I could cause this, or even it it's possible with the framebuffer.
It has to be possible *somehow*, 'cause softdevice works here (on a 4:3 CRT TV) without any scaling problems, OSD has always the correct size and 16:9 content has the typical black borders on the top and the bottom... To bad I don't have a 16:9 TV available here...
Because I'm using a 550Mhz P3, my only option is to use the xineliboutput until I figure out what is causing the big CPU load variations.
Yes, a big plus for xineliboutput...
As I've never had softdevice successfully running on this television, I can't really say anything about it's quality, though I know there's been lots of work in respect to the matrox cards.
I think this comes from the fact that AFAIK at least one of the softdevice coders uses a Matrox G550 for video output ;)
Greetings, Markus