[gentoo-user] OT - Stupid MythTV question that I should already know the answer to, but don't.

[Michael Sullivan]

My MythTV is working pretty well, except that my wife and I can't watch
Live TV on our own PC's at the same time, but only having one TV card I
don't think there's a way around that.  One problem wae are having is
that the brightness level on Live TV and on the recordings MythTV makes
is too high.  I know I saw a brightness control somewhere on the
interface last week, but now I can't find it.  Also, what should I set
the stream type in Recording Profiles so that I can get full screen
recordings without huge file size?  Someone recommended VCD for
converting my MythTV media files to a lower resolution (and therefore
smaller file size), and I saw an option for stream type "MPEG-1 VCD",
but when I try to view recordings made with that setting in MythTV it
looks like it's trying to cast full screen mode into wide screen mode by
stretching the video horizontally.  I can watch the videos just fine in
gmplayer, but my wife won't be able to (unless I either share the
recordings directory via NFS or I copy the files that are in that
directory over to her PC - neither one an elegant solution.  What
settings should I change to get standard television quality in MythTV?

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