2012-04-06, 15:06
Hi everyone,
first off thanks for XBMC 11 - sweet piece of software :-)
So I recently decided to buy a new fancy 3D TV. I am using the latest XBMCbuntu on an Acer Aspire Revo with NVidia ION graphics. My problem is that in its default configuration, XBMC's screen is too large for my TV, so I set the Skin Zoom to -2 which fits perfectly. Later I noticed that for some videos the picture is still too large for the screen, so I used the "Calibrate" function while playing the video to adjust the screen size. This works great for regular videos, but now I can't watch 3D movies (left-right) anymore. Before I adjusted the video size it worked great, and it appears that now the shift between the 2 pictures that are required for 3D is too large (when looking at it without the shutter glasses one can see that pretty well).
My next step was to remove my user settings and redo them, but this time I gave nvidia-settings a try and set overscan compensation there (which basically has the same effect as what skin zoom/calibrate does) - same problem :-(
Also, I notice that when playing music and using the visualizations the picture is incorrect - it looks like it moves the whole picture a bit to bottom left, and even when playing a video after listening to music there will be a black stripe at the top and the left side.
Did anyone ever see similar issues and maybe even found a way to solve these? I looked in my TV's settings but there is no option to adjust the screen size, so it needs to be done on OS level obviously.
PS. The issue doesn't seem to be XBMCbuntu specific, before it was released I was running XBMC Live but with upgraded XBMC (Beta + RCs), and I had the same issues there. And yes, I know I should have reported this a long time ago during the Beta/RC phase but I didn't get to it, I am sorry.
Thanks in advance for any hints
Bochi
first off thanks for XBMC 11 - sweet piece of software :-)
So I recently decided to buy a new fancy 3D TV. I am using the latest XBMCbuntu on an Acer Aspire Revo with NVidia ION graphics. My problem is that in its default configuration, XBMC's screen is too large for my TV, so I set the Skin Zoom to -2 which fits perfectly. Later I noticed that for some videos the picture is still too large for the screen, so I used the "Calibrate" function while playing the video to adjust the screen size. This works great for regular videos, but now I can't watch 3D movies (left-right) anymore. Before I adjusted the video size it worked great, and it appears that now the shift between the 2 pictures that are required for 3D is too large (when looking at it without the shutter glasses one can see that pretty well).
My next step was to remove my user settings and redo them, but this time I gave nvidia-settings a try and set overscan compensation there (which basically has the same effect as what skin zoom/calibrate does) - same problem :-(
Also, I notice that when playing music and using the visualizations the picture is incorrect - it looks like it moves the whole picture a bit to bottom left, and even when playing a video after listening to music there will be a black stripe at the top and the left side.
Did anyone ever see similar issues and maybe even found a way to solve these? I looked in my TV's settings but there is no option to adjust the screen size, so it needs to be done on OS level obviously.
PS. The issue doesn't seem to be XBMCbuntu specific, before it was released I was running XBMC Live but with upgraded XBMC (Beta + RCs), and I had the same issues there. And yes, I know I should have reported this a long time ago during the Beta/RC phase but I didn't get to it, I am sorry.
Thanks in advance for any hints
Bochi