On Thursday 20 October 2005 04:14, Mark Dobossy wrote: > On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Stephen Boddy wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 October 2005 21:23, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> Mark Dobossy wrote: > >>> If any mythgallery users out there could please give my patch a > >>> whirl, > >>> and give some feedback, I'd appreciate it. It is simply a modified > >>> version of the blend (gl) transition, that zooms/fades out the > >>> previous > >>> picture, as the new picture fades in. The patch file adds the new > >>> transition- it will be in the mythgallery settings, and is > >>> called "zoom > >>> blend (gl)". The patch is attached to ticket #490: > >>> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/490 . Any feedback would be > >>> great! > >> > >> Not currently up-to-date with mythgallery or myth generally with the > >> latest svn versions so can't give feedback but this is the best blend > >> ever invented. > >> > >> If you want to give it it's proper name, I think it is called the > >> "Ken > >> Burns Effect"... > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns#Ken_Burns_Effect > >> > >> Probably worth editing the wiki to say MythTV will have it by v > >> 0.19 :) > >> > >> Col. > > > > Slightly OT, but has anyone else noticed the slightly ugly step > > change in the > > background colour with glblend? If your pictures aspect ratio > > doesn't match > > your display (i.e. a 4:3 image on a 16:9 display) as the images > > cross fade, > > the background fades - in my case - from black to a mid-grey. Then it > > suddenly snaps back to black. Rather spoils the effect... > > -- > > Steve Boddy > > Steve- > > Yes I had noticed this. I'm not sure why, but the blend routine puts > a 20% grey quad behind the fading image. Attached is a diff that > changes this to black, so you dont see the grey flash at all. Hope > this helps. :) > > -Mark
Blimey! Thanks Mark. I wasn't so much looking for a fix, but a confirmation that I wasn't doing something dumb, and that it was a real issue. Much appreciated. -- Steve Boddy
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