PCH won't change screen size

[agerdin]

Hi, This issue reminds me alot about a similar problem I reported last spring. http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=35298.

I was never able to resolve it and I am now curious if stoenjes has the same problem where the main GBPVR main menu appears perfect aligned but all plugins are "overscanned" and changes in config.xml does not affect.

I am also running XP.

\\Agerdin

[pBS]

mine is acting better, the changes do make a difference, but it seems like it's sending screen changes before the resize...or more like just not waiting for it..

on mine it looks perfect on first entering, but move focus and it shifts to the left a bit..
go into tvguide and looks correctly sized, but move up or down and it all shifts to the left..
you can see it trying to move it back into place, but it never does for the grid, just the buttons, cuz they'd be offscreen if they shifted..
same with main menu...cuts off the right side of button when you move..
if you move slowly sometimes it is fast enough to correct things, but not usually..
change screens and come back and it looks fine again..but first move shifts it..
just seems like the offset or resize isn't happening before the snap and send always..just on entering screens..
sticking with proportional numbers seems to help..meaning equally proportional cuts to both x and y..[keeping aspect ratio correct]

when i deviated from keeping aspect, weird things happened..[cutting less off vertically than horizontally]
turned it into square aspect ratio [1:1]

Confirmed: Only the grid in guide gets shifted upon movement, the rest of the elements correct themselves into place, drawing on top: channel icons/screen title etc..
in main menu, buttons correct, task image not...

[stoenjes]

logs attached

[mvallevand]

Apparently it looks like you are using a Linksys bridge of some sort and the real MAC address is not being forwarded You need to use 001C01112761 as your MAC address.

Martin

[stoenjes]

That did it - after I changed the MAC address in config.xml as suggested.

I recently changed my PCH connectivity to a Linksys WRT150N running DD-WRT firmware in Client Bridge mode. Seems to have no trouble streaming HD.

Thank-you.

Stan

[pBS]

well, after some extreme testing, i have found what the deal is with the resizing...
here's an interesting set of numbers, please check to see if you get same behavior..

<MVPWidth>640</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>360</MVPHeight>
<MVPOffsetX>64</MVPOffsetX>
<MVPOffsetY>32</MVPOffsetY>

with these numbers, i get a box centered in middle of screen, about half size of screen...
using offsetx 640 and offsety 320, i get box wayy off screen to lower right corner..?!!

i would assume that half size dimensions, with same size offset would yield centered box..
but something's not right here...

1200x720 offsetx 80 gives properly aligned on left side, but doesn't appear to be resizing, as it goes off right side of screen as if it's still a 1280 pic that's just shifted to right without being resized to account for offset..

no matter how much i cut off of horizontal,i can never get it to show right side unless i have lots of unneccessary padding on left..if i use less than a total of 1280 for size + offset, the menus shift when used...making it unusable...
so far best i've been able to get is the 1200 with 80 offset, as it doesn't cut too much off right side where not much is needed anyways..

but play with the settings to extremes and you'll see what i mean...
somewhere there's unexpected math going on...

so far best i can get is with:

<MVPClientType>PCH</MVPClientType>
<MVPWidth>1220</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>648</MVPHeight>
<MVPOffsetX>60</MVPOffsetX>
<MVPOffsetY>0</MVPOffsetY>

but the right side is slightly cut off and i tried everything...like the 60 needs to be 30 but it messes up menus if i use 30...

[mvallevand]

pBS could you run a session from telnet capturing all the pch and mvpmcx2 output running your command line? putty is good for this.

Martin

[pBS]

sure, using the 1220 x 648 numbers?

i think it's just moving on to next size/aspect when going past a certain point..
oh and if i didn't mention, this is a 4:3 1080i tv..
the 1220x648 actually gets all the text on screen, even if just a tad bit of overscan on right..
with some dimensions, i actually got a red screen..

[pBS]

here ya go for these numbers..

<MVPClientType>PCH</MVPClientType>
<MVPWidth>1220</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>628</MVPHeight>
<MVPOffsetX>60</MVPOffsetX>
<MVPOffsetY>20</MVPOffsetY>

[mvallevand]

Thanks, there was indeed a problem. I have code that attempts to centre a 1280x720 screen in a 1920x1080 screen for 1080i users without 720p who don't want slow screen and it was misfiring. I hope the attached helps.

Martin