Re: [Mvpmc-devel] Viewport and New Date Format - Testers Wanted

[Roger H. <ra...@wi...>]

Simon Hyde wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Roger Heflin wrote:
> 
>> On the size, the description now fully falls into the "zoomed" view, 
>> though
>> the description can still be moved quite a bit left and still fit just 
>> fine,
>> some of the stuff off of the top of the screen cannot be seen on a zoomed
>> tv, though the title of the menu is alot less important so it may be 
>> ignorable,
>> though it would be nice if the stuff used when video is running did 
>> actually
>> fit in the zoomed area.
> 
> I think you migh be missing something here. This patch doesn't, as such, 
> reduce the size of the output display to fit within a zoomed picture on 
> the mvpmc for a default install. What it does do is try to make most 
> widgets obey the size of the viewport as set in the settings menu.

Ah.
> 
> To be able to set viewport settings you must first have a read/write 
> NFS/CIFS share mounted on the MVP, and then point the MVP at a 
> configuration file for the viewport settings to be saved to by adding a 
> "-F /path/to/write_mount/mvpmc.settings" to the command line. Once 
> that's there you can adjust the viewport size in the settings menu.
>
I have set that up.

It looks pretty good.

Here are some things that I noticed:

#1: When adjusting the viewport it does not have a lower limit, if you
go below 0 then the limit rolls over to 65535, also if you save a viewport
of 0 and reboot, on reboot it crashes at "creating colortest" and continues
to restart.   Recovery requires removing the settings file and rebooting.

#2: If you set the viewport too small then it crashes at "creating mythtv
browers" (I only moved the left and right in quite a ways), so we probably 
should put limits in the set viewport area.

#3: The settings I am using are:
69, 23, 75, 65

Settings them +60 off of those settings (all around) results in things
working but exceeding the bottom of the viewport, I might suggest limiting the 
viewport settings to +20 or +40 off of my settings which should easily cover the
worst TV issues, though +60 appears to not crash anything, and also limit the 
bottom of the settings to be at least 1.

                             Roger