Assuming linuxmce is required, the following result was found.
Ubuntu as a media serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/ubuntu-as-a-media-server.html
overscan; consumer tv's crop off the border around the image. How does Ubuntu intend to officially solve this? Right now LinuxMCE has it's own method for doing this so the LMCE UI is never cropped off, but when the user switches back to Ubuntu's gnome...