MCE7 and S-Video Input

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#71018 3-Nov-2010 16:49

I have just setup my Sky decoder as an S-video tuner in Windows 7 MCE on my HTPC. Unfortunately even though I have my Sky decoder set to output 16:9 video, MCE does not seem to want to stretch it out to fill my screen. It displays it just like a normal 4:3 input except the picture is obviously compressed. I'm wondering if it's either my tuner card or MCE software ignoring the line 23 PAL signal? Has anybody else had much luck?

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#399741 3-Nov-2010 17:17

I have a 4:3 TV, but I have configured the sky box to output 16:9 to prevent the edges being cut off. The box is is connected to my HTPC via s-video.

Have you configured the sky box to output the right format? That was the only thing that i needed to do to change the way the image was presented.

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#399747 3-Nov-2010 17:48

Can't you press the More / info button on the MCE remote and choose between 4 different screen types?

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#399784 3-Nov-2010 19:06

Windows 7 does seem to try and detect if the input is widescreen but I have found it a bit hit and miss. Maybe try setting it to 4:3 on the sky STB and then back again while playing live TV and see if it wakes it up to it being 16:9.

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#399816 3-Nov-2010 20:28

Thanks for the suggestions. Tried changing the Sky box settings around and it didn't seem to do anything. The zoom option works well while I'm watching a sky channel which comes in via s-video but when I switch back to a freeview channel from my DVB-S tuners I have to switch the setting back manually. I'll have to do some further digging.