--- Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Flegg wrote: > > On 8/13/07, Michael Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Panorama, as it is, fails miserably at 16:9. > > > > Strong, and somewhat emotive words. I'm aware of only two bugs in > > Freevo with Panorama (or, more specifically, anamorphic skins): > > > > * The current version's "Recording status" idlebar plugin looks > > vertically squashed. > > > > * "Recordings Manager" seems to plot a background image as a > foreground > > image, given the former are pre-rendered horizontally > anamorphic and > > the latter are anamophisised at runtime, this results in double > > compression. > > The Panorama skin looks great on 16x9 TV...
At Freevo's default geometry of 800x600 or something different? > There are a couple of other problems with running freevo on 16x9 TVs > and > that is when viewing photographs they are not correctly proportioned. > > MPlayer is a bit poor with videos that are 16x9 it seems to shrink > them > vertically so the video has nice black borders. It is even worst with > DV > video shot in 16x9, found this out yesterday, it compresses the video > horizontally, which is already compressed horizontally so the video > is > doubly compressed and only one decompressed when displayed, good for > people wanting to lose weight :) For this very reason, I don't use MPlayer. I found this out a long time ago and switched to Xine. I've had no difficulties since. > Not had a chance to investigate this further. > > Duncan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-devel mailing list > Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
