Re: [xine-user] Wrong picture dimensions sometimes

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi Hakon,

> > Some video streams explicitly ask the player to use a certain width
> > to height ratio. This is >called aspect ratio. For example
> > anamorphic DVDs are stored at 768x576 pixels (at least >PAL DVDs),
> > but they are displayed at something like 1024x576. xine then scales
> > the image accordingly. The letterboxed display can be disabled in
> > xine-ui by enabling the config option gui.stream_resize_window.
> > Michael
>
> Aha, I see about the anamorphic thing. But the problem movie is a
> "OGM" file it's not a DVD. But perhaps anamorphic override works for
> those too?

That depends on the video codec the file uses. It's definitely possible.

> I also found the stream the gui.stream_resize_window config.
> But then I tried to use that line is gxine config as well, but it
> doesn't seem to work. Is it supposed to?

I suppose not. Config entries starting with "gui." are frontend 
configuration, so they are most likely specific one particular 
frontend.

> In any case, it's not wiped out from the config file, it remains
> there.

Unknown config entries will always stay in the file.

Michael

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