Patrick Boettcher wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Ian Bates wrote:
One more remark, if as I believe from the comments in the code above, that the '16:9 crop to 4:3' behaviour is not implemented in xineliboutput, am I the only one suffering from the lack of this feature? Am I the only one still using a 4:3 TV? I don't think so, what do other people do when viewing 16:9 material on a 4:3 device, other than put up with the black bars?
This is exactly what I'm doing - I'm accepting the black bars at the bottom and the top, dreaming about the screen I'm going to buy at some point in the future, along with being happy for other xineliboutput-users having already a 16:9 screen.
I would say the correct term is not accepting but acknowledging... Makes no sense to me why someone would like to cut 25% from the picture. And what about programmes in 2.39:1 aspect ratio? Should those be cut too so that they fit to 4:3 ratio and lose 44% of the image in the process?
Anyway, mplayer can do that, try something like "mplayer -vf crop=507:544,scale=720:544 http://<your_server>:37890". Although that will cut also programmes sent in 4:3 aspect ratio.
-Petri