Re: [xine-user] Configuring Xine for Widescreen Monitors

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

Hi David,

> I have looked through the postings and have found several messages
> about xine dxr3 output to widescreen televisions, but haven't found
> anything about watching video on widescreen monitors.
>
> I am currently running xine (csv from past two weeks) on an apple
> cinema monitor which has 16:9 aspect ratio.  I would like to be able
> to watch widescreen tele and video without having it squished between
> the black lines but haven't quite figured out how to do it.

I guess your problem is that the black borders belong to the image, 
because a "real" widescreen video should already play in widescreen, if 
your X server has the correct resolution and display aspect.
So something like this is happening:

 +--------+-------------+--------+
 |        |  black bar  |        |
 |        +-------------+        |
 |        |    image    |        |
 |        +-------------+        |
 |        |  black bar  |        |
 +--------+-------------+--------+
          ^--the video--^
 ^---------your resolution-------^

Now, xine does unfortunately not recognize the black bars, when they are 
included in the video image. (That would be quite difficult and time 
consuming.) But if you are using a xine video output that supports 
zooming, adjusting the zoom by pressing the 'z' key (with xine-ui's 
default keymapping) should help you.

Michael

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