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I'm using a second monitor with heavy overscan. And I have no option to fix it on my monitor / tv. I'm using that monitor on my linux x64 / ubuntu 18.04 machine (laptop) & with kodi 17 I could fix overscan with video calibration menu - hdmi connected 1920x1080 resolution old TV. - Right now if I use video calibration and fix my overscan than exit kodi and re-start kodi screen calibration is resetting and I'm again seeing very overscanned kodi.
Sorry I opened 3 different thread lately because even simple things in kodi 18 not working on a kodi downloaded from stable repo.
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2019-01-31, 11:11
(This post was last modified: 2019-01-31, 11:14 by ozzyman.)
My TV would not have that mode because It's really old flatscreen CRT (15 years old) - It has only 4:3 / 16:9 modes so I'm using 16:9 for kodi & I'm using HDMI to RCA (Scart) Converter. In Windows 7-10 / My graphics card in my pc or laptop itself has overscan fix option but I'm using linux (ubuntu/lubuntu) in my laptop lately and my CRT TV solely used by kodi while I'm working on my first monitor.
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I too am impacted. My Toshiba is an HD flatscreen bought in 2007. It has a no overscan mode but resets every time it is shut off, making it very inconvenient to use.
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Yes, the native mode on that TV resets every time you turn off the TV or switch inputs. It correctly defaults to native mode if I use the VGA input instead of the HDMI one, but then it only supports 4:3 resolution. It also presents itself to the computer as 1920x1080, despite having a real resolution of 1366x768 - I've long given up on one to one pixel mappings. I called Toshiba about it many years ago, but they had nothing to help me.
In the mean time, I've set up overscan compensation in Nvidia's xorg settings.
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I have "fixed" that problem just copying guisettings.xml from Kodi 17.4 (by the way, it doesn't need calibration). After that, calibration settings work properly even in Kodi 18.4 GUI. Maybe it is not necessary to copy the whole guisettings.xml, just resolutions section. Or, it is possible to copy resolutions section to advancedsettings.xml. I haven't tried that yet.
However, it is sad, that nobody cares about that bug...