Hello,
I am making some test with vdr-xine 0.8.2, libxine en xine-ui from Reinhard's site (kubuntu 7.10)
It is on a laptop without dvb device.
For the moment I just try to replay recordings from an other vdr box, and dvd with dvdswitch.
I use a Sony bravia 32" TV screen connected at the vga output of the laptop.
The resolution configured in xorg.conf is 1280x720.
I achieve to have the "no-signal" in full screen.
When I replay recordings, most of them are with wide black bands left & right and for some of them also small bands up&down.
Some recordings (most movies) have wide bands on the four sides.
The most dvd's also have wide bands L&R. One of them plays in full screen but the image is stretched.
I was playing around with some settings of the plugin, but don't see how to get a good result.
In the past I made some test, I believed, with vdr-xine (or maybe xineliboutput ?), and I can remember something in the settings that achieved auto-scaling. I had at that time almost everything in full screen, but sometimes also with wrong stretching.
I tried to start xine, just by typing xine in a terminal box and choosinf "vdr" and I also tried xine -V xv --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio --post upmix_mono "vdr:/tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes", but can't really see a difference.
As I understand, I have different sources, with different resolutions. Is there a manner to tell vdr-xine or xine to adapt the output as good as possible to my tv screen ?
Thanks,
sp
Thanks, but does'nt help
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] Namens Tony Grant Verzonden: vrijdag 21 maart 2008 13:18 Aan: VDR Mailing List Onderwerp: Re: [vdr] vdr-xine - screen size and resolution
Le vendredi 21 mars 2008 à 12:43 +0100, serge pecher a écrit :
As I understand, I have different sources, with different resolutions. Is
there a manner to tell vdr-xine or xine to adapt the output as good as possible to my tv screen ?
try the -f option
Tony
Hi,
serge pecher schrieb:
I am making some test with vdr-xine 0.8.2, libxine en xine-ui from Reinhard’s site (kubuntu 7.10)
It is on a laptop without dvb device.
For the moment I just try to replay recordings from an other vdr box, and dvd with dvdswitch.
I use a Sony bravia 32” TV screen connected at the vga output of the laptop.
The resolution configured in xorg.conf is 1280x720.
I achieve to have the “no-signal” in full screen.
When I replay recordings, most of them are with wide black bands left & right and for some of them also small bands up&down.
Some recordings (most movies) have wide bands on the four sides.
The most dvd’s also have wide bands L&R. One of them plays in full screen but the image is stretched.
I was playing around with some settings of the plugin, but don’t see how to get a good result.
In the past I made some test, I believed, with vdr-xine (or maybe xineliboutput ?), and I can remember something in the settings that achieved auto-scaling. I had at that time almost everything in full screen, but sometimes also with wrong stretching.
I tried to start xine, just by typing xine in a terminal box and choosinf “vdr” and I also tried xine -V xv --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio --post upmix_mono "vdr:/tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes", but can’t really see a difference.
As I understand, I have different sources, with different resolutions. Is there a manner to tell vdr-xine or xine to adapt the output as good as possible to my tv screen ?
Please give the test-*.mpg files a try:
http://home.vrweb.de/~rnissl/radio/
Add the option -l to xine's commandline to have it play the file endlessly.
Bye.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] Namens Reinhard Nissl Verzonden: vrijdag 21 maart 2008 13:38 Aan: VDR Mailing List Onderwerp: Re: [vdr] vdr-xine - screen size and resolution
Hi,
serge pecher schrieb:
I am making some test with vdr-xine 0.8.2, libxine en xine-ui from Reinhard's site (kubuntu 7.10)
It is on a laptop without dvb device.
For the moment I just try to replay recordings from an other vdr box, and dvd with dvdswitch.
I use a Sony bravia 32" TV screen connected at the vga output of the
laptop.
The resolution configured in xorg.conf is 1280x720.
I achieve to have the "no-signal" in full screen.
When I replay recordings, most of them are with wide black bands left & right and for some of them also small bands up&down.
Some recordings (most movies) have wide bands on the four sides.
The most dvd's also have wide bands L&R. One of them plays in full screen but the image is stretched.
I was playing around with some settings of the plugin, but don't see how to get a good result.
In the past I made some test, I believed, with vdr-xine (or maybe xineliboutput ?), and I can remember something in the settings that achieved auto-scaling. I had at that time almost everything in full screen, but sometimes also with wrong stretching.
I tried to start xine, just by typing xine in a terminal box and choosinf
"vdr" and I also tried xine -V xv --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio --post upmix_mono "vdr:/tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes", but can't really see a difference.
As I understand, I have different sources, with different resolutions. Is
there a manner to tell vdr-xine or xine to adapt the output as good as possible to my tv screen ?
Please give the test-*.mpg files a try:
http://home.vrweb.de/~rnissl/radio/
Add the option -l to xine's commandline to have it play the file endlessly.
[serge pecher] The 4:3 test file gives me a 4:3 image (from bottom to top, and black bands L&R), and the 16:9 a full screen image
So that seems ok to me
Sp
Bye.
Hi,
serge pecher schrieb:
Please give the test-*.mpg files a try:
http://home.vrweb.de/~rnissl/radio/
Add the option -l to xine's commandline to have it play the file endlessly.
[serge pecher] The 4:3 test file gives me a 4:3 image (from bottom to top, and black bands L&R), and the 16:9 a full screen image
So that seems ok to me
vdr-xine's setup menu allows you to set scaling factors for 4:3 and 16:9 images. So setting X and Y factor for 4:3 images to 133 will stretch the 4:3 image proportionally to 16:9, cutting off some part on top and bottom of the image. In case such a 4:3 stream contains an 16:9 image (e. g. a movie), you'll only loose the black bars on top and bottom ;-)
In case you have a 16:9 broadcast which carries a 4:3 image the 4:3 scaling option won't help you much, as it does only look at the aspect ratio and not at any black bars contained in the image, so it wouldn't make use of the 4:3 factors. In such a case you may want to change the scaling factors for 16:9 images to avoid the black bars on the left and right side of the image, but it is a bit annoying that you'll have to change this setting over and over.
Be aware though, that most movies show an image which is 2.1:1 and therefore you'll even see black bars on top and bottom when such a movie is broadcast 16:9 and you have a 16:9 TV set.
Bye.
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Reinhard Nissl -
serge pecher -
Tony Grant