Re: [Freevo-users] 16x9 telly/monitor, and the theme

[Jake B. <ja...@co...>]

Philip Tuckey wrote:
> On Friday 6 February 2009 07:02, Jacob Briggs wrote:
>   
>> Hi All
>>
>> I recently reinstalled my freevo machine (replaced gentoo with ubuntu),
>> and installed 1.8.3, but I can't for the life of me remember how I got
>> the interface to be widescreen! At the moment, its full screen but 4x3.
>> Videos play properly (apart from dvds, they play in 16x9 but using the
>> 4x3 width....). I am using a 16x9 telly, at 1360x768 over a vga cable.
>> Also, how would one make it so a certain button on a remote zooms the
>> image in? I had a look at mplayer slave stuff, I have managed to make a
>> button change_subs, swicth_audio, and switch_ratio, but not just plain
>> old zoom! I have some 4x3 videos, but the top and bottom have black
>> bars....
>>     
>
> mplayer doesn't have an on-the-fly zoom capability as far as I can see. 
> (Anyone know better?) So I guess one would have to write some python code 
> which would stop and restart mplayer with extra cropping, in order to 
> obtain a zoom. Another possibility, which I am thinking of trying, would 
> be to just output in 4:3 and to use the television's own zoom/16:9 control 
> to adapt to the image (4:3, letterbox or 16:9).
>
> Philip
>   

I was playing around with it yesterday actually, playing a video full 
screen and hitting the "e" button on the keyboard seems to zoom the 
image in and "w" zooms it out - the OSD pops up and looks like this :

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According to the mplayer man page,  that is increase/decrease 
pan-and-scan range. I wonder if that would be a good substitute, 
especially when used with 4/3 video with black bars ont he top and 
bottom....

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Jacob Briggs
Systems Engineer

Core Technology Limited
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