2013-08-24, 08:11
Hi everyone,
I recently updated my TV to a Samsung 8000 series LCD and have trouble getting some of my videos to play full screen.
Background: XBMCBuntu 12.2 running on a Zotac Atom N330 box. I'm pretty sure I have the TV set up ok, in that the Ion box is connect to the "PC" HDMI input and the display mode is set to "screen fit". I also have selected "adjust display refresh rate to match video" and unselected "sync playback to display". The XBMC UI occupies the full screen and XBMC seems to detect that it is connected to a 1920x1080 display.
The trouble arises when I want to play a video. For example, playing a video with resolution 1280x720, XBMC scales the video to 1835x983 (in "normal" mode). If I select "zoom" mode things are slightly better, with the video being scaled to 1878x1006. But both fall short of filling the screen, and both have a different aspect ratio (1.8667) to the source (1.777).
Similarly with some 1080p content, XBMC reports that the original resolution is 1920x1080 but when it played it is scaled to 1920x1029 (normal) and 2016x1080 (zoom). Again, the aspect ratio is being changed to 1.8667 and I don't understand why.
Any pointers on how to improve this would be greatly appreciated.
james
I recently updated my TV to a Samsung 8000 series LCD and have trouble getting some of my videos to play full screen.
Background: XBMCBuntu 12.2 running on a Zotac Atom N330 box. I'm pretty sure I have the TV set up ok, in that the Ion box is connect to the "PC" HDMI input and the display mode is set to "screen fit". I also have selected "adjust display refresh rate to match video" and unselected "sync playback to display". The XBMC UI occupies the full screen and XBMC seems to detect that it is connected to a 1920x1080 display.
The trouble arises when I want to play a video. For example, playing a video with resolution 1280x720, XBMC scales the video to 1835x983 (in "normal" mode). If I select "zoom" mode things are slightly better, with the video being scaled to 1878x1006. But both fall short of filling the screen, and both have a different aspect ratio (1.8667) to the source (1.777).
Similarly with some 1080p content, XBMC reports that the original resolution is 1920x1080 but when it played it is scaled to 1920x1029 (normal) and 2016x1080 (zoom). Again, the aspect ratio is being changed to 1.8667 and I don't understand why.
Any pointers on how to improve this would be greatly appreciated.
james