Xibo

xibo not filling the screen

Asked by Nate

I have a RCA 42LA45RQ
Resoltuion 1920*1080 (1080p)
Connected via HDMI to the computer - output settings I have tried 1280*960 & 1280*1024

When it is displayed in the layout I have regions set on the top of the screen that end up 1.5" off the top of the display.
What is odd is that when the layout with the power point start it will fill the screen (Have not yet applied reg fix for ppt and xibo). If I exit the Xibo application windows desktop covers the screen fully top to bottom and left to right.

I saw most solutions were to have only one monitor, and in my case I only have the TV hooked to the computer.

From reading what xibo should is to keep the aspect ratio (http://wiki.xibo.org.uk/wiki/Manual:Administration:Resolutions)
Yet it doesn't seem to becuase I am ending up.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

You need to drive the screen at it's native resolution - so configure it to run at 1920x1080 or a multiple of that (eg 1366x768 - 720p).

Once you have that right, the client will fill the screen correctly.

Alex

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Nate (nschultz) said : 		#2

Xibo will not let you set add a custom resolution of anything larger than 800*600

The video card in the computer will not go higher than 1280*1024.... Yet power point and windows XP desktop do fill the entire screen. But when Xibo loads it does not.

What am I missing, or not understanding?

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#3

Forget about the word Resolution in Xibo. It's aspect ratio and you DO NOT need to alter the defaults.

If your display is natively 1920x1080 then it's 16:9 aspect ratio and so you need to drive it at a 16:9 resolution.

Ideally you'd run 1920x1080 but you're saying your PC isn't capable of that, so the nearest resolution to use is 1280x720 (720p).

If you run at another resolution - eg 1280x1024 then the screen output will be square (even though your display then stretches it to fill the screen) and so when the client renders a 16:9 layout on it, there will be black bars.

The only problem here is the resolution you're running your screen at. If you fix that, then the output from Xibo will be correct.

Alex

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