Fullscreen only - wrong aspect ratio

[sub]

GBPVR.exe didnt attempt to do any aspect ratio control when in window mode, and you could resize the window to any old misshapen sized, with video potentially horribly distorted.

PVRX2.exe does manage the aspect ratio in window mode, and it does this by making sure that your window can only be resized to the same aspect ratio as it would be in fullscreen, so that it can rely on the TV Shape setting.

[Ted the Penguin]

If you want to hack your way around this, you can change your desktop resolution (to something widescreen), start PVRX2, then switch it back to your normal resolution.
That will trick PVRX2 into using a widescreen window, and it will stay that way once you go back to your normal resolution... this will have to be done each time you start PVRX2 though.

[fausto]

I'm still not completely clear about all of this. I have set to widescreen 16x9 in the config because I watch recordings on my living room widescreen LCD TV (streamed via an MVP). Does this mean that I can't watch on the host PC's 4:3 crt with the correct picture aspect without Ted the P's everytime bodge?

I should also say that streamed recordings don't look quite right on my TV either. They're close but slightly too tall. The top and bottom of the picture is cut off. Could this be due to the TV's auto switching not working from the MVP's scart output? Can I tweak this by editing some xml file parameter?

[lenor]

I should also say that streamed recordings don't look quite right on my TV either. They're close but slightly too tall. The top and bottom of the picture is cut off. Could this be due to the TV's auto switching not working from the MVP's scart output? Can I tweak this by editing some xml file parameter?

i had this issue on my CRT tv as long as i used donge.bin. perhaps you should give mvpmc.bin a try!

[Ted the Penguin]

I'm still not completely clear about all of this. I have set to widescreen 16x9 in the config because I watch recordings on my living room widescreen LCD TV (streamed via an MVP). Does this mean that I can't watch on the host PC's 4:3 crt with the correct picture aspect without Ted the P's everytime bodge?

To be honest... I am not quite sure what your issue is. Videos will be stretched (or cropped, compressed, etc.) however you tell them to (via F7), so you shouldn't have a problem with the video itself, but I take it that you would rather the window be 16x9, so there is no extra space around the video?

[sub]

The window will always be 4:3 shaped on a 4:3 screen. It'll show the correct aspect ratio of the video within that window though, assuming you've got the TV Shape setting set correctly in the config app.

[Ted the Penguin]

The window will always be 4:3 shaped on a 4:3 screen. It'll show the correct aspect ratio of the video within that window though, assuming you've got the TV Shape setting set correctly in the config app.

You're talking about automatic aspect ratio, correct? The manual aspect ratios should do whatever you tell them to, regardless of the TV Shape setting (at least that is how I thought it worked )

[sub]

Yes, correct.

[fausto]

The window will always be 4:3 shaped on a 4:3 screen. It'll show the correct aspect ratio of the video within that window though, assuming you've got the TV Shape setting set correctly in the config app.

Unless I'm misinterpreting this info, that's not what I'm seeing. If you look at the pics on posts #16 and #18 you will see that the video within the window is not the correct aspect ratio. This remains the case as I toggle through all the F7 options. The video changes within the window and the black side or top bars change within the window, but no matter what, the faces still look squashed too thin and incorrect.

(The TV Shape setting in the config app. was set to widescreen 16x9 because I watch things streamed through, via a MediaMVP, on the widescreen LCD TV in the living room.)

[sub]

As you mentioned in those posts, you had your TV Shape setting incorrectly set to 16:9. You have a 4:3 screen, so it needs to be set to 4:3, or you'll see things distorted in the way shown in your screenshots.

The TV Shape setting has no effect on the MVP, so you dont need to worry about it changing it having any effect on the TV connected to the MVP.