Hello,
I have a new 16:9 display and use it with the xine-plugin. Unfortunately many stations broadcast 16:9 content in a 4:3 stream with hardcoded black bars at the top and the bottom. There is no possibility with xine and/or the xine-plugin to get rid of the black bars, the expand post-plugin doesn't work in this situation.
An automatic cut-away-the-bars-function is missing. Dear R.N. please implement it.
S.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Sebastian Frei wrote:
Hello,
I have a new 16:9 display and use it with the xine-plugin. Unfortunately many stations broadcast 16:9 content in a 4:3 stream with hardcoded black bars at the top and the bottom. There is no possibility with xine and/or the xine-plugin to get rid of the black bars, the expand post-plugin doesn't work in this situation.
Have you tried to play with (a) aspect ratio and the different zoom (z,Z also combined with alt and crtl I think as default) ?
For me it works pretty good !!!
Hi,
Gregoire Favre wrote:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Sebastian Frei wrote:
I have a new 16:9 display and use it with the xine-plugin. Unfortunately many stations broadcast 16:9 content in a 4:3 stream with hardcoded black bars at the top and the bottom. There is no possibility with xine and/or the xine-plugin to get rid of the black bars, the expand post-plugin doesn't work in this situation.
Have you tried to play with (a) aspect ratio and the different zoom (z,Z also combined with alt and crtl I think as default) ?
This seems to be a working solution. Some TV sets can do something similar which is often called "cinema zoom".
Bye.
Am Sonntag 30 Oktober 2005 12:19 schrieb Gregoire Favre:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Sebastian Frei wrote:
Hello,
I have a new 16:9 display and use it with the xine-plugin. Unfortunately many stations broadcast 16:9 content in a 4:3 stream with hardcoded black bars at the top and the bottom. There is no possibility with xine and/or the xine-plugin to get rid of the black bars, the expand post-plugin doesn't work in this situation.
Have you tried to play with (a) aspect ratio and the different zoom (z,Z also combined with alt and crtl I think as default) ?
For me it works pretty good !!!
This works, but not very well:
a) The OSD is also zoomed, this is especially annoying when replaying a recording, because then it is completely off screen. b) It is very very uncomfortable. It takes several keypresses to zoom in. After a channel switch one has to zoom out again. Zoom reset doesn't work in fullscreen mode (maybe a xine bug).
An automatic solution like the centre-cut-out-mode is better. I don't know if it's very hard to implement such a function, but if it's easy it should be done.
S.
Hi,
Sebastian Frei wrote:
I have a new 16:9 display and use it with the xine-plugin. Unfortunately many stations broadcast 16:9 content in a 4:3 stream with hardcoded black bars at the top and the bottom. There is no possibility with xine and/or the xine-plugin to get rid of the black bars, the expand post-plugin doesn't work in this situation.
Have you tried to play with (a) aspect ratio and the different zoom (z,Z also combined with alt and crtl I think as default) ?
For me it works pretty good !!!
This works, but not very well:
a) The OSD is also zoomed, this is especially annoying when replaying a recording, because then it is completely off screen. b) It is very very uncomfortable. It takes several keypresses to zoom in. After a channel switch one has to zoom out again. Zoom reset doesn't work in fullscreen mode (maybe a xine bug).
An automatic solution like the centre-cut-out-mode is better. I don't know if it's very hard to implement such a function, but if it's easy it should be done.
Well, I have something like that on my virtual todo list. But don't expect anything too soon :-(
A quick hack would be to clone or enhance the expand plugin to put 4:3 content into a 16:9 frame (currently it does only 16:9 => 4:3). centre-cut-out mode might then work already but maybe some aspect relevant changes need still to be made.
Bye.
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Sebastian Frei