Boxee on Standard Def. TV

[rshetler]

For one reason or another I find myself with my apple TV and a Standard definition TV. I am connected to the TV via component cables (of course) and am running the apple tv at 480p. When I run boxee on this TV it is all stretched out (like it wants to be on an HD TV). When I try to change the resolution I get two choices as big as it currently is, or bigger.

Any help here? Anyone using a standard def tv with ATV and boxee?

Thanks!

[Coda]

I guess you are running a 4:3 TV? If so - this isn't a boxee/xbmc issue, but an appletv issue. The appletv is setup for wide (16:9) TV's only so the output is stretched. If you have a button on your remote to letterbox the display you may get a usuable output.

If this doesn't work you'll have to consider patching the AppleTV to get 4:3 resolution. There is a tutorial on the AwkwardTV wiki but I don't know if it will work on later AppleTV OSes.

If you DO have a 16:9 TV try the 480i setting.

I'm in europe, and most TV's made in the last 10 years here are widescreen, but don't have component inputs (just scart and svideo). I'm running a Philips SDTV 16:9 at 480i using the composite colour hack (again awkardtv wiki). Lucky for me my TV can handle 60hz. Once the AppleTV was displaying correctly I just did the video calibration from within xbmc and boxee to get it displaying correctly.

[cdude]

I guess you are running a 4:3 TV? If so - this isn't a boxee/xbmc issue, but an appletv issue. The appletv is setup for wide (16:9) TV's only so the output is stretched. If you have a button on your remote to letterbox the display you may get a usuable output.

If this doesn't work you'll have to consider patching the AppleTV to get 4:3 resolution. There is a tutorial on the AwkwardTV wiki but I don't know if it will work on later AppleTV OSes.

If you DO have a 16:9 TV try the 480i setting.

I'm in europe, and most TV's made in the last 10 years here are widescreen, but don't have component inputs (just scart and svideo). I'm running a Philips SDTV 16:9 at 480i using the composite colour hack (again awkardtv wiki). Lucky for me my TV can handle 60hz. Once the AppleTV was displaying correctly I just did the video calibration from within xbmc and boxee to get it displaying correctly.

I could be wrong, since it's been a while since I set it up, but I could swear the ATV had a setting in it somewhere for 4:3 OR 16:9 TVs. Perhaps it's just set wrong in his?

[murphysm@photokiva.com]

If you have a button on your remote to letterbox the display you may get a usuable output.


definitely try this out! I have a standard def 27" tv and found using ATV (at 480i) the videos were kind of squished. I found in the menus of the tv that there was an option to switch between 4:3 to 16:9 and now all the video looks great.