so this very likely might be a question better answered in the xbmc forums but what the heck.
I decided to try out xbmc on my front end/backed machine to test mythtv support (pretty good) but also for some online streaming. Somehow when I'm watching some videos I'll notice that my oversaw correction will go away. it doesn't happen with every video and it seems to affect the xorg settings because when I exit back to LinHES it's screwed up there too.
How do I keep XBMC from messing with video settings of xorg or how do I reset them on exit?

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I had a similar problem. When I left XBMC to return to LinHes I had a big blue bar at the bottom of the screen. I configured my XBMC video resolution to match the nvidia screen resolution, Once I did that I didn't have any other problems.

Check you setting In XBMC System | Settings | Video Output | Resolution

Change that to match your native screen resolution and see what happens.

Thanks, That was one of the work arounds I was considering, I have to wonder what else it is changing.

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well that "fix" seems to have worked inside xbmc but it still screws up LinHES.

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XBMC has a super tool to adjust overscan.


It's a lot like Nvidia one in Windows, here is a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zReEUyI85bA

The result only applys to XBMC.

Additionally this will also give you a better idea on how much overscan exists with your TV.

It would be an awesome exhancement if Linhes could capture the results of the tool and remove the overscan from Enlightment and Myth.

I'm using XBMC most of time now it works really well

mattbatt,

I guess I was lucky because I was using a standard resolution in both environments.

You might want to look through this:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=54685

and this

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Co ... _xorg.conf

Don't know if will help but might.

One of the problems that I had was the the all the edges were being cut off when I let LinHES and Myth decide the resolution by using the Auto select options. I did some research and found out that my TV's resolution was actually 1360 x 768.

Once I specified that in LinHES settings and in XBMC I no longer needed to make any other changes and all my screens fit perfectly, and no more problems.

I think it would be helpful if I described how I underscaned my image.
First I used Nvidia-settings to determine how much underscan I needed. I saved that "xorg" file out. Which gives me this section.

I tried the obvious GUI method of Service Menu>LinHES settings>Display checked the box that said I want you to read my xorg file located at ~/templates/xorg.user . That didn't work.
So essentially I followed this advice viewtopic.php?f=22&t=24023&hilit=XORG&start=0#p138763 and put the the Nvidia created code into
and that works .... for LinHES and XBMC in the beginning.
after watching a few trailers for movies all of the sudden the XBMC GUI is overscanned and if I exit out to LInHES it is also overscanned. I think if I can get X to just reload the video settings from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-automv.conf then I would be grand.

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Thanks Tscholl for those links, They talk mostly about manually configuring your xorg.conf file. I already have that part my problem is that XBMC is overriding or ignoring my xorg.conf.

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There is a tool inside xbmc to reset your resolution settings



It should change XBMC back to stock resolution and then you can work on manually creating your modeline in 20-automv.conf.

ok cool ill try that when I get home.

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Thanks RacerX there doesn't seem to be that option in the version 12.2 XBMC in the Repository.
Also it appears that the XBMC folks don't care that they are breaking standards.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=138306
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152232
They seem to be under the assumption that XBMC is the answer for everything. Anywho I found a glimmer of hope and a band-aid. From the first link the poster mentioned fixing the metamode with a simple nvidia-settings command line. So I created a little script called overscan.sh and it looks like this.


If I can figure out how to get xmbc to execute it on exit then I might have a Band-Aid for the problem. Also if I run XBMC in windowed mode it never changes any settings.

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Sorry I'm using XBMC 13.1 it's a little more enhanced than 12.2. It'll be good when when a new package rolls out for Linhes. Personally I like 13.1 better with the update function moved to the side and



Might suggest trying to uninstall xbmc, rebooting, and then reinstall. I realize this isn't great it's the only thing I can think of until XBMC 13.1 rolls

I think you could call it at the end of the xbmc start script.

And it should run when xbmc exits.

I was looking in that script but I wasn't sure if I tagged it on to the end if it would run at the close of XBMC or how that worked exactly.
OK cool so it works SAF is vastly improved.

Since I'm a NOOB at any kind of programming (even simple bash scripting) I couldn't decide whether I should hard code the "nvidia-settings ...." or if I should just call the overscan script?



But hey it solves my problem so thanks guys.

Here is where it gets odd you can change the overscan settings for the interface in XBMC but when it plays a video it does so without the overscan compensation. That is where the bugaboo lies.

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