WARNING: Long story incoming!
Most of the time I will post asking for advice, requesting help, complaining about some bug or weird behaviour, begging for just this one feature that would make XBMC ubercool
But not today, today I want to share a happy story.
Yesterday was a big day for my HTPC, after lots of tinkering, setting up, damning and polishing I was ready to move it to the TV room. Let it shine.
Several scratches later (both in flesh and in wooden furniture) I had everything almost seemingly connected.
I turned on the TV. It works. Ufff, at least I didn't f*ck*d that up!
I turned on the computer. It boots
. Everything is perfect.
Except it displays an overscanned desktop. Plus I have no sound. (or maybe I became deaf in the last 5 mins??)
Playing with Nvidia panel I quickly realized that I was on a casino. You always lose. Either get a overscanned desktop or a "quite right" desktop that looks blurry, aliased and far away from my crystal clear LCD desktop monitor.
Ok, it's only the Windows desktop. Who cares? :o . I launch the raison d'etre of the computer: XBMC
No matter what resolution I setup on Windows I always lost interface elements in XBMC, I follow RSS news by guessing half top of capital letters, the date is hidden somewhere behind the bezel of my TV...![Sad Sad](https://forum.kodi.tv/images/smilies/frown.png)
Nvidia panel control is still Las Vegas. Overscanned, blurry, without sound.
All the hours, effort, money to get this ?![Sad Sad](https://forum.kodi.tv/images/smilies/frown.png)
I searched. I read. I was enlightened. Hidden in the guts of XBMC settings, never before used (because things just work!) I discovered.
The User Interface Calibration Window
With a little help from my remote and a wireless mouse XBMC would resize to a resolution where everything fitted!. Amazing, everything fitted.
So ok, still the fonts don't look so great, the image not so sharp but I am ready to declare it usable. Plus I am going to try the resolution XBMC chose as a Windows resolution for the desktop, see if it also fits.
And the audio you say? Well, let's leave it in that I understood a few things about the difference between digital optical audio and digital coaxial audio in/outputs.
PS: The technicalities about the overscan appear to be caused because my Pio TV overscans 5% any signal (wtf!?!?) except VGA. Or that's what I read.
Most of the time I will post asking for advice, requesting help, complaining about some bug or weird behaviour, begging for just this one feature that would make XBMC ubercool
But not today, today I want to share a happy story.
Yesterday was a big day for my HTPC, after lots of tinkering, setting up, damning and polishing I was ready to move it to the TV room. Let it shine.
Several scratches later (both in flesh and in wooden furniture) I had everything almost seemingly connected.
I turned on the TV. It works. Ufff, at least I didn't f*ck*d that up!
I turned on the computer. It boots
![Cool Cool](https://forum.kodi.tv/images/smilies/cool.png)
Except it displays an overscanned desktop. Plus I have no sound. (or maybe I became deaf in the last 5 mins??)
Playing with Nvidia panel I quickly realized that I was on a casino. You always lose. Either get a overscanned desktop or a "quite right" desktop that looks blurry, aliased and far away from my crystal clear LCD desktop monitor.
Ok, it's only the Windows desktop. Who cares? :o . I launch the raison d'etre of the computer: XBMC
No matter what resolution I setup on Windows I always lost interface elements in XBMC, I follow RSS news by guessing half top of capital letters, the date is hidden somewhere behind the bezel of my TV...
![Sad Sad](https://forum.kodi.tv/images/smilies/frown.png)
Nvidia panel control is still Las Vegas. Overscanned, blurry, without sound.
All the hours, effort, money to get this ?
![Sad Sad](https://forum.kodi.tv/images/smilies/frown.png)
I searched. I read. I was enlightened. Hidden in the guts of XBMC settings, never before used (because things just work!) I discovered.
The User Interface Calibration Window
With a little help from my remote and a wireless mouse XBMC would resize to a resolution where everything fitted!. Amazing, everything fitted.
So ok, still the fonts don't look so great, the image not so sharp but I am ready to declare it usable. Plus I am going to try the resolution XBMC chose as a Windows resolution for the desktop, see if it also fits.
And the audio you say? Well, let's leave it in that I understood a few things about the difference between digital optical audio and digital coaxial audio in/outputs.
PS: The technicalities about the overscan appear to be caused because my Pio TV overscans 5% any signal (wtf!?!?) except VGA. Or that's what I read.