Mediaportal widescreen (1 Viewer)

[butterflies]

Hello,
I am using Mediaportal to view my large collection of nature footage on a 37 lcd. It works fine and gives much more enjoyment then doing this on a small comp monitor. However, I would like to fill up the widescreen with Mediaportal, but that does not seem possible. I find that strange, because nowadays almost everybody using Mediaportal has a widescreen tv. I wonder what am I doing wrong? I connect a laptop through VGA to the tv, tried several resolutions, but I never get my screen filled up, unless I switch the television to widescreen. But then the video images shown have no natural proportions. What am I doing wrong?
Rob

 

[DJBlu]

Have you tried right mouse Click on FullScreen and changed the aspect Ratio?

Change that to Stretched and see if that helps.

P.S are the Black Lines Vertical or Horizontal?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

unless I switch the television to widescreen. But then the video images shown have no natural proportions. What am I doing wrong?

What is the native resolution of the lcd, these are usually found under pc connectivity or specifications.

You may have to add a custom resolution to your graphics adapter.

 

[butterflies]

unless I switch the television to widescreen. But then the video images shown have no natural proportions. What am I doing wrong?

What is the native resolution of the lcd, these are usually found under pc connectivity or specifications.

You may have to add a custom resolution to your graphics adapter.

Thanks for your respons. The res. of lcd is Full HD. How can I change these items, like custom resolution??

 

[Spragleknas]

Well, full HD should be 1920x1080 - use 50 or 60 Hz.

Info needed:
- Graphic card type and...
--> What res. are you using?
--> Are you cloning the screen (displayed on both LCD TV and monitor)?

- TV

 

[Forgotten Illustrator]

Like Spragleknas said we need to know a few other things.

But if you have a Nvidia chip set then this screen shot should help you "force" the output into HDTV

 

[butterflies]

Well, full HD should be 1920x1080 - use 50 or 60 Hz.

Info needed:
- Graphic card type and...
--> What res. are you using?
--> Are you cloning the screen (displayed on both LCD TV and monitor)?

- TV

My graphic card: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
I tried all possible resolutions.
I have switched between cloning and not cloning. Same result

 

[Spragleknas]

For 1080p w/ATI:

There is only 1080p 60 Hz (no PAL (ARGHHHH)).

Add this resolution, and use the "Force->" when setting display settings in CCC

 

[butterflies]

Thanks for the info.

With all the experimenting with settings, i now do not have any tv image anymore. I was adding a second monitor in monitor settings and played a bit with resolutions, until I had a black tv screen. My first monitor now has only three possible resolutions and the second has 13 possible resolutions (the highest 2048*1536). I can switch between the 2 monitors, but nothing changes on the tv. What could I do to restore this? I tried everything.
Thanks,
Rob