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<blockquote data-quote="dmumaw" data-source="post: 700680" data-attributes="member: 109905">First of all thank you for your response. It is great to know you can get help when you need it. Really appreciate it.You will have to forgive me for overlooking enabling General-&gt;Skin-&gt;StreamedMP-&gt;Autosize window mode to skin dimensions. I have been adjusting settings since I found this great HTPC to find out experimentally what everything did and must not have changed it back but thank you for pointing that out. As for the problem in full size mode, I looked into my windows font size and it is set to default 100%. The problem must be because I am using an old monitor with a resolution of 1280x1024. I did not know the skin was designed to be displayed solely on a widescreen monitor (next purchase!). I calibrated the skin to the 1280x720 resolution like you mentioned and just like that it viewed perfectly with no overlapping. This brings up another question. To my understanding the image produced on a TV connected to a PC running mediaportal is the same image that is seen on the computer monitor. (I do not have this set up yet so I can only speculate). If this setup is done, what will be the resulting image on the TV if I use a computer monitor that isn't wide screen (i.e. Mediaportal has to be run as a window for the text not to overlap). Will it be scaled or streched, or will I see my desktop background around the borders of the mediaportal window?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dmumaw, post: 700680, member: 109905"] First of all thank you for your response. It is great to know you can get help when you need it. Really appreciate it. You will have to forgive me for overlooking enabling [B]General->Skin->StreamedMP->Autosize window mode to skin dimensions[/B]. I have been adjusting settings since I found this great HTPC to find out experimentally what everything did and must not have changed it back but thank you for pointing that out. As for the problem in full size mode, I looked into my windows font size and it is set to default 100%. The problem must be because I am using an old monitor with a resolution of [B]1280x1024[/B]. I did not know the skin was designed to be displayed solely on a widescreen monitor (next purchase!). I calibrated the skin to the 1280x720 resolution like you mentioned and just like that it viewed perfectly with no overlapping. This brings up another question. To my understanding the image produced on a TV connected to a PC running mediaportal is the same image that is seen on the computer monitor. (I do not have this set up yet so I can only speculate). If this setup is done, what will be the resulting image on the TV if I use a computer monitor that isn't wide screen (i.e. Mediaportal has to be run as a window for the text not to overlap). Will it be scaled or streched, or will I see my desktop background around the borders of the mediaportal window? [/QUOTE]

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