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Hi,

First post, but having got myself a Raspberry Pi this week and loading it with xbian I've run into my first problem. This problem is occuring on two seperate TV's, an older Sony, and a newer Samsung model (probably 2 years old).

Both Tv's are 1920x1080 capable, the problem I'm seeing is while the Xbian menus are showing fullscreen perfectly (I had to adjust overscan within xbian settings to get them to fit, but I have xbmc set up to run at 1920x1080.

The problem I'm seeing is as soon as I go to play a video, rathe than it playing in full screen it takes up the top left hand corner only .... this even occurs attempting to play a 1920x1080 mkv file. The playing video looks fine, it just doesnt fill the entire screen.

As soon as I end the video and go back to the menus, I again see them rendered full screen.


I have a 512mb type B Pi, the following details come from the Summary Info from within xbmc:

Screen resolution: 1920x1080@60Hz - Full screen
Operating system: Linux 3.6.11+ #3 PREEMPT Tue Jan 8 22:27:29 CET armv6l
XBian version: 1.0a5
XBMC: 12.2 Git:20130502-32b1a5e (Compiled May 3 2013)

I have done no overclocking, Pi is stock.
I haven't bought any codec licenses etc ... dont know if this is related.


At this point I'm not sure where to head in diagnosing, happy to take logs etc if it will help.... may be a lag in turnaround depending on when I'm home.

The two attachments show the display while viewing menus, and when viewing video playback.

The following info may also be of use:
xbian@xbian ~ $ tvservice -m CEA
Group CEA has 14 modes:
mode 1: 640x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:25MHz progressive
mode 2: 720x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:27MHz progressive
mode 3: 720x480 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz progressive
mode 4: 1280x720 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 5: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz interlaced
(native) mode 16: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:148MHz progressive
mode 17: 720x576 @ 50Hz 4:3, clock:27MHz progressive
mode 18: 720x576 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:27MHz progressive
mode 19: 1280x720 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 20: 1920x1080 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz interlaced
mode 31: 1920x1080 @ 50Hz 16:9, clock:148MHz progressive
mode 32: 1920x1080 @ 24Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 33: 1920x1080 @ 25Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive
mode 34: 1920x1080 @ 30Hz 16:9, clock:74MHz progressive

xbian@xbian ~ $ tvservice -s
state 0x12001a [HDMI CEA (32) RGB lim 16:9], 1920x1080 @ 24Hz, progressive

search my posts m8 and try the fixes,settings I have mentioned many times.
I would give u the links but unfortunately Im at work and only on phone so would take ages to search for me

Cheers mate, will go through in a bit more detail, had a quick look but nothing jumped out.

I may have a look into it but when I get home from work.
Im sure we find the solution

first try to remove the video calibration you did.
On your TV use fixed 16:9 aspect ratio and not auto mode.
Thus should fix the GUI issue with overscan effect.
Also make sure you have the default overscan line in config.txt
Than we may have a look into video playback issue if still there

No problems,

TV Aspect ratio seems to have already been at 16:9 (went in via TV options menu), so should be able to tick that off.

my ./boot/config.txt contains:

- - - - - - -
initramfs initramfs.gz 0x00a00000
arm_freq=840
core_freq=375
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=128
sdram_freq=400
over_voltage=0

# Attempt to stop changing TV HDMI signal on boot
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1
disable_overscan=1
- - - - - - -

add back the overscan line

sorry - do you mean I should remove the "disable_overscan=1" line ?

[I probably wont get another chance to reply tonight as about to head out - will take a look in the morning]

no,put it back to config,as I understand you have removed it as it is after #Attempt...

also try to add this two lines
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

I haven't tried to removed it, the hash should only comment out the line it's on shouldn't it.

That was only there as I was experimenting with cec settings.


I'll throw your two new lines in and report back incompetent.

Hi,

You're changes worked perfectly ... thankyou.

nice one, glad you all good. and now time to enjoy