From: Michael R. <mr...@us...> - 2005-02-15 12:19:35
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Hi, > Maybe the real question is: with xine fullscreen, is the composite > signal of my TV-Out graphics card in 16/9, or 4/3 ?? TV-Out signals will always be 4:3 and are a bad choice for DVDs anyway, since you lose a good part of the image's resolution, because the bandwidth of most TV chips does not suffice to transmit all the pixels. You should definitely consider connecting a beamer with a VGA or even better, with a DVI cable. If the beamer announces its native resolution correctly to the graphics card, xine will use the entire area for 16:9 material. (I don't know a way to verify this in advance, but I would consider any beamer broken, when it fails to do this right.) The only problem is: Some badly encoded DVDs have widescreen movies on them, but the image is not encoded as a 16:9 picture, but as a 4:3 picture with hardcoded black borders on top and bottom as part of the image. xine will, in the near future, include a post plugin to correct this, but you should watch out that your DVDs contain a note like "optimized for 16:9 display" or the word "anamorphic" on their backside to avoid such stupid products. Michael -- There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't. |