Hi, Sebastian Frei wrote: >>>I have a new 16:9 display and use it with the xine-plugin. Unfortunately >>>many stations broadcast 16:9 content in a 4:3 stream with hardcoded black >>>bars at the top and the bottom. There is no possibility with xine and/or >>>the xine-plugin to get rid of the black bars, the expand post-plugin >>>doesn't work in this situation. >> >>Have you tried to play with (a) aspect ratio and the different zoom (z,Z >>also combined with alt and crtl I think as default) ? >> >>For me it works pretty good !!! > > This works, but not very well: > > a) The OSD is also zoomed, this is especially annoying when replaying a > recording, because then it is completely off screen. > b) It is very very uncomfortable. It takes several keypresses to zoom in. > After a channel switch one has to zoom out again. Zoom reset doesn't work in > fullscreen mode (maybe a xine bug). > > An automatic solution like the centre-cut-out-mode is better. I don't know if > it's very hard to implement such a function, but if it's easy it should be > done. Well, I have something like that on my virtual todo list. But don't expect anything too soon :-( A quick hack would be to clone or enhance the expand plugin to put 4:3 content into a 16:9 frame (currently it does only 16:9 => 4:3). centre-cut-out mode might then work already but maybe some aspect relevant changes need still to be made. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx
