2007-04-17, 11:25 AM
Hi guys,
Hope this one is in the right place! Basically, my next project is to set up a PVR for my parents, made out of a combination of some older core components (an Athlon 2200, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9200SE) and some new additions (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 dual tuner card and a big hard drive).
At the moment, I've connected a completely different system to their TV to see how GBPVR behaves (installed the latest version). I'm using Composite out on the video card to composite in on their Bose audio system, which basically just patches the video straight through to the TV, which is an older Panasonic CRT widescreen model (not HD capable).
Obviously, the image is hardly crisp, but video plays back quite nicely. My biggest problem is, though, that I can only select standard aspect ratios for my resolution, as opposed to widescreen ones (it's currently set to 800x600). This means that, when I play a 16x9 .mpeg or .avi file that I've recorded on my own media system - through GBPVR - it un-naturally 'letterboxes' the video - as if it were trying to fit 16:9 output on a 4:3 screen.
Even using F7, I cannot make the video fill the screen to restore the correct aspect. Outside of GBPVR, using Media Player Classic to play the same files, I get the same problem, but this particular player has a "scale to 16:9" option which restores the correct aspect.
Apologies for all this info, but I hope it's clear what I want to do. I wondered if it were possible to sort this out from within GBPVR itself, or whether there was some way to select a widescreen resolution from Windows itself.
Any help much appreciated.
Hope this one is in the right place! Basically, my next project is to set up a PVR for my parents, made out of a combination of some older core components (an Athlon 2200, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9200SE) and some new additions (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 dual tuner card and a big hard drive).
At the moment, I've connected a completely different system to their TV to see how GBPVR behaves (installed the latest version). I'm using Composite out on the video card to composite in on their Bose audio system, which basically just patches the video straight through to the TV, which is an older Panasonic CRT widescreen model (not HD capable).
Obviously, the image is hardly crisp, but video plays back quite nicely. My biggest problem is, though, that I can only select standard aspect ratios for my resolution, as opposed to widescreen ones (it's currently set to 800x600). This means that, when I play a 16x9 .mpeg or .avi file that I've recorded on my own media system - through GBPVR - it un-naturally 'letterboxes' the video - as if it were trying to fit 16:9 output on a 4:3 screen.
Even using F7, I cannot make the video fill the screen to restore the correct aspect. Outside of GBPVR, using Media Player Classic to play the same files, I get the same problem, but this particular player has a "scale to 16:9" option which restores the correct aspect.
Apologies for all this info, but I hope it's clear what I want to do. I wondered if it were possible to sort this out from within GBPVR itself, or whether there was some way to select a widescreen resolution from Windows itself.
Any help much appreciated.
