Re: [xine-devel] [PATCH] support for horizontal expansion in expand plugin

[Brian J. T. <bj...@co...>]

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Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:21 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> Now I'm a bit confused... what's the point of adding black bars?
>> [...]
>
> No, you've got the right idea.  This is admittedly not going to be a
> very useful feature for a lot of people.  But I need it; this bit from
> my previous email explains:
> 
>         The reason may not be entirely obvious, especially since some
>         (most?) vo drivers are able to render subtitles outside the
>         frame region, but for Freevo, we have written a custom xine
>         pseudo vo driver that does alpha compositing of a BGRA image for
>         custom OSD.  (I say pseudo because it just composites the
>         overlay before passing the frame onto the real video driver.)
>         It blends the OSD over the frame, so if we'd like the OSD to
>         fill the screen regardless of the video's aspect, we must be
>         able to expand the video arbitrarily. 

Ahhhh, ok, that makes perfect sense.  And now I remember reading earlier
what you pasted above, but I guess what you were getting at didn't sink
in.  (Food coma?)

So I guess you haven't worked on actually stretching video in one
dimension, have you?  Or is that something the expand post plugin can
already do?  I should really actually just look into this myself and
stop pestering :-P.

	-brian

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