But is anyone else still annoyed by the stupid overscan issues that the OS on the system can't deal. Jump to content. My subreddits. Edit subscriptions. Peggle 2 is pretty much broken for me with the Overscan issue since I can't see the ball catch bucket that moves along the bottom of the screen. It should be an easy fix at that point.
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I formerly hadone of my myth boxes attached directly to my Vizio VP42 TV through VGAwith a 1360x768 resolution on an Nvidia GT210 graphics card. Thisworked perfectly with no overscan.I just put in an Onkyo TX-SR608 receiver (replaced an older Onkyo thathad no HDMI/VGA connectivity) and now I have terrible overscan inMythTV.
On 24 Nov 2010, at 09:17, Jim Berwick wrote: Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I formerly had one of my myth boxes attached directly to my Vizio VP42 TV through VGA with a 1360x768 resolution on an Nvidia GT210 graphics card. This worked perfectly with no overscan.
I just put in an Onkyo TX-SR608 receiver (replaced an older Onkyo that had no HDMI/VGA connectivity) and now I have terrible overscan in MythTV. The Onkyo notes it is outputting to the TV over HDMI at 1280x720p and all other content (bluray player over HDMI, PS2 over composite, Wii over component) is being scaled to the correct size with no overscan.I have a TX-606 and the best way I found is to configure the HDMI as passthrough, this way the receiver makes no changes to the HDMI signal (apart from the source name) and everything is simple and as before. On 3:43 AM, Andre wrote: I have a TX-606 and the best way I found is to configure the HDMI as passthrough, this way the receiver makes no changes to the HDMI signal (apart from the source name) and everything is simple and as before. It's still possible to have other inputs configured to upscale or convert component or composite to HD over HDMI. Maybe the 608 is different but I think it will still have this mode.
AndreThe 608 does have a 'through' mode for resolution, but it doesn't changethe overscan issue:(mythtv-users mailing [email protected]. On 24 Nov 2010, at 10:27, Jim Berwick wrote: On 3:43 AM, Andre wrote: I have a TX-606 and the best way I found is to configure the HDMI as passthrough, this way the receiver makes no changes to the HDMI signal (apart from the source name) and everything is simple and as before. It's still possible to have other inputs configured to upscale or convert component or composite to HD over HDMI. Maybe the 608 is different but I think it will still have this mode. Andre The 608 does have a 'through' mode for resolution, but it doesn't change the overscan issue:(Was worth a try, that mode solved some similar (but not the same) problems for me.Maybe there is some subtle difference when passed through the receiver that triggers some auto setting in the TV?
There has been some discussion in other threads about TVs that automatically choose overscan/1:1 or rgb-full/rgb-limited depending on the input signal, maybe this related to your problem?There is something in the Samsung's where you must name the input PC (I think) to get 1:1 (no overscan) and RGB-full. Panasonic Viera's only allow 1:1 when set to game mode.Andremythtv-users mailing [email protected]. On 5:37 AM, Andre wrote: Was worth a try, that mode solved some similar (but not the same) problems for me.
Maybe there is some subtle difference when passed through the receiver that triggers some auto setting in the TV? There has been some discussion in other threads about TVs that automatically choose overscan/1:1 or rgb-full/rgb-limited depending on the input signal, maybe this related to your problem?
There is something in the Samsung's where you must name the input PC (I think) to get 1:1 (no overscan) and RGB-full. Panasonic Viera's only allow 1:1 when set to game mode. Andre mythtv-users mailing list [email protected], that's a possibility. I currently have my input named MythTV onthe receiver, I could try naming it back to PC when I get home.That being the case, how hard would it be to just tell MythTV to centeritself inside the display area with a smaller working area?
I tried the'Screen Setup Wizard', which resized the screen but left it hugging thetop left corner so things were overscanned with a ton of blank space onthe bottom and right.mythtv-users mailing [email protected]. On 24 Nov 2010, at 14:58, James Berwick wrote: On 5:37 AM, Andre wrote: Was worth a try, that mode solved some similar (but not the same) problems for me. Maybe there is some subtle difference when passed through the receiver that triggers some auto setting in the TV? There has been some discussion in other threads about TVs that automatically choose overscan/1:1 or rgb-full/rgb-limited depending on the input signal, maybe this related to your problem? There is something in the Samsung's where you must name the input PC (I think) to get 1:1 (no overscan) and RGB-full. Panasonic Viera's only allow 1:1 when set to game mode.
Andre mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] Hmm, that's a possibility. I currently have my input named MythTV on the receiver, I could try naming it back to PC when I get home.Hopefully that's it. That being the case, how hard would it be to just tell MythTV to center itself inside the display area with a smaller working area? I tried the 'Screen Setup Wizard', which resized the screen but left it hugging the top left corner so things were overscanned with a ton of blank space on the bottom and right.There is a thread about that most weeks on here, I refuse to watch HDTV with overscan so I always ignore those threads.Andremythtv-users mailing [email protected]. On 14:58, James Berwick wrote: On 5:37 AM, Andre wrote: Was worth a try, that mode solved some similar (but not the same) problems for me.
Maybe there is some subtle difference when passed through the receiver that triggers some auto setting in the TV? There has been some discussion in other threads about TVs that automatically choose overscan/1:1 or rgb-full/rgb-limited depending on the input signal, maybe this related to your problem? There is something in the Samsung's where you must name the input PC (I think) to get 1:1 (no overscan) and RGB-full. Panasonic Viera's only allow 1:1 when set to game mode. Andre mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] Hmm, that's a possibility. I currently have my input named MythTV on the receiver, I could try naming it back to PC when I get home. That being the case, how hard would it be to just tell MythTV to center itself inside the display area with a smaller working area?
I tried the 'Screen Setup Wizard', which resized the screen but left it hugging the top left corner so things were overscanned with a ton of blank space on the bottom and right.The OSS radeon driver's xrandr implementation supports the overscanproperty for this. You could check if the nvidia driver offers somethingsimilar. mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] mailing [email protected]. On 15:13, dargllun wrote: On 14:58, James Berwick wrote: On 5:37 AM, Andre wrote: Was worth a try, that mode solved some similar (but not the same) problems for me.
Maybe there is some subtle difference when passed through the receiver that triggers some auto setting in the TV? There has been some discussion in other threads about TVs that automatically choose overscan/1:1 or rgb-full/rgb-limited depending on the input signal, maybe this related to your problem? There is something in the Samsung's where you must name the input PC (I think) to get 1:1 (no overscan) and RGB-full. Panasonic Viera's only allow 1:1 when set to game mode. Andre mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] Hmm, that's a possibility. I currently have my input named MythTV on the receiver, I could try naming it back to PC when I get home. That being the case, how hard would it be to just tell MythTV to center itself inside the display area with a smaller working area?
I tried the 'Screen Setup Wizard', which resized the screen but left it hugging the top left corner so things were overscanned with a ton of blank space on the bottom and right. The OSS radeon driver's xrandr implementation supports the overscan property for this. You could check if the nvidia driver offers something similar.Sorry, I meant the underscan property, of course. mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] mailing [email protected]. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:15 AM, dargllun wrote: On 15:13, dargllun wrote: On 14:58, James Berwick wrote: On 5:37 AM, Andre wrote: Was worth a try, that mode solved some similar (but not the same) problems for me. Maybe there is some subtle difference when passed through the receiver that triggers some auto setting in the TV?
There has been some discussion in other threads about TVs that automatically choose overscan/1:1 or rgb-full/rgb-limited depending on the input signal, maybe this related to your problem? There is something in the Samsung's where you must name the input PC (I think) to get 1:1 (no overscan) and RGB-full. Panasonic Viera's only allow 1:1 when set to game mode. Andre mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] Hmm, that's a possibility. I currently have my input named MythTV on the receiver, I could try naming it back to PC when I get home. That being the case, how hard would it be to just tell MythTV to center itself inside the display area with a smaller working area? I tried the 'Screen Setup Wizard', which resized the screen but left it hugging the top left corner so things were overscanned with a ton of blank space on the bottom and right.
The OSS radeon driver's xrandr implementation supports the overscan property for this. You could check if the nvidia driver offers something similar.nvidia-settings has an overscan slider. Turn on mythtv, export yourdisplay and run it on another machine while you watch the effects onthe TV. You could also try a custom modeline (although if the onkyois in fact causing the overscan - it will just overscan that modelineas well) Sorry, I meant the underscan property, of course.mythtv-users mailing [email protected].
nvidia-settings has an overscan slider. Turn on mythtv, export your display and run it on another machine while you watch the effects on the TV. On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Douglas Peale wrote: One more thing to check: make sure the receiver is not doing a color space conversion from RGB to Y Pr Pv.
My monitor will over-scan anything that is not in RGB color space.I have the exact same receiver; SR608. I'm outputting DVI-HDMI to the receiver and the receiver is set to passthrough. Thanks to everyone for the helpful tips. Unfortunately none of them hadmuch of an effect.
I did, however, figure out a working solution. Itseems the overscan correction for VGA and HDMI are different, as I wasable to fit the picture correctly with an overscan compensation of 120via HDMI (which is still horribly distorted under VGA). Everythingseems to look great!Thanks to all who helped for kicking me into the right direction!mythtv-users mailing [email protected].