2011-11-27, 20:13
I was wondering if someone could help me out. I currently have my Panasonic 50" TV connected as a 2nd monitor to my computer, and have it setup for cloned display. I have a Harmy 880 remote and a USB receiver setup so that when I select the XBMC activity on the remote, it opens XBMC and switches my TV to the input for my PC.
(At some point I'll set it up so that it only opens on the 2nd monitor, any suggestions on the easiest way to do this and have XBMC open up maximized on the TV would be appreciated, could try to use Display Fusion again).
The issue I'm having is that doing it this way I'm unable to get XBMC to fill the entire screen. When my Windows Desktop is shown on the TV, there are black bars only on the sides. During XBMC playback the bars are on top and on the sides. With those same settings it seems to look fine on my PC monitor, but just not my TV. I obviously don't want the picture to be stretched.
I'm able to set my TV to the 'Zoom' format and in XBMC I set the Zoom to 20%. For the video playback I set it to custom and the 'Zoom Amount to .8 and that does the trick for playback. The problem is the top and bottom of the XBMC Menus are cutoff when navigating, but the playback looks fine and does not seem distorted or cutoff at all.
Does anyone know if there is an easier way to do this? The PC Monitor and TV are setup as 1680x1050. Possibly if I was able to set them up separately instead of setting to 'Duplicate Display' would that help at all? Because of the resolution and the TV, not sure if there is any good way to do this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I apologize as I'm a newbie at this, trying to get everything setup right.
~J
(At some point I'll set it up so that it only opens on the 2nd monitor, any suggestions on the easiest way to do this and have XBMC open up maximized on the TV would be appreciated, could try to use Display Fusion again).
The issue I'm having is that doing it this way I'm unable to get XBMC to fill the entire screen. When my Windows Desktop is shown on the TV, there are black bars only on the sides. During XBMC playback the bars are on top and on the sides. With those same settings it seems to look fine on my PC monitor, but just not my TV. I obviously don't want the picture to be stretched.
I'm able to set my TV to the 'Zoom' format and in XBMC I set the Zoom to 20%. For the video playback I set it to custom and the 'Zoom Amount to .8 and that does the trick for playback. The problem is the top and bottom of the XBMC Menus are cutoff when navigating, but the playback looks fine and does not seem distorted or cutoff at all.
Does anyone know if there is an easier way to do this? The PC Monitor and TV are setup as 1680x1050. Possibly if I was able to set them up separately instead of setting to 'Duplicate Display' would that help at all? Because of the resolution and the TV, not sure if there is any good way to do this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I apologize as I'm a newbie at this, trying to get everything setup right.
~J