Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ian Bates may or may not have written... [snip] > In the mean time I am looking at the patch Darren Salt brought to my > attention for xine-lib, and the xine post plugin 'expand' (with special > attention to Reinhard Nissl's center_cut/crop_out mode') to see if I can > hack something

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-11 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Ian Bates schrieb: > Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions. More welcome too. In vdr-xine's setup menu, you can specify scaling factors for 16:9 and 4:3 images. Scaling 16:9 images by 133 % will fit it into a 4:3 window (e. g. full screen), dropping information on the left an

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Bates
Torgeir Veimo wrote: >> So (finally) a direct question: how do people with 4:3 output devices >> and vdr with xineliboutput configure their boxes? > > (shameless plug) Did you actually try softdevice? Dear Torgeir, Nothing shameless about the plug! Yes, I have tried softdevice (recent CVS and

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-09 Thread Malcolm Caldwell
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 13:43 +0300, Petri Helin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Jouni Karvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nevertheless, although probably most techies feel the crop mode is not > > interesting, perhaps you'll be able to find one that is willing to > > implement it - o

[vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-09 Thread Torgeir Veimo
> So (finally) a direct question: how do people with 4:3 output devices > and vdr with xineliboutput configure their boxes? (shameless plug) Did you actually try softdevice? -- Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org ht

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-09 Thread Petri Helin
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Jouni Karvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nevertheless, although probably most techies feel the crop mode is not > interesting, perhaps you'll be able to find one that is willing to > implement it - or perhaps you can DIY and share the code. > I think the idea of

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Jouni Karvo
Ian Bates wrote: > One more remark, if as I believe from the comments in the code above, > that the '16:9 crop to 4:3' behaviour is not implemented in > xineliboutput, am I the only one suffering from the lack of this > feature? Am I the only one still using a 4:3 TV? I don't think so, > what

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Petri Helin
Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Ian Bates wrote: >> One more remark, if as I believe from the comments in the code above, >> that the '16:9 crop to 4:3' behaviour is not implemented in >> xineliboutput, am I the only one suffering from the lack of this >> feature? Am I the

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ian Bates may or may not have written... > I have lurked a while on this list but until now have not had reason to > post. > I am unable to configure xineliboutput to my liking. [snip] > My output device is a 4:3 analog TV. Watching a 4:3 stream is fine in the > sense that the ful

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Patrick Boettcher
Hi, On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Ian Bates wrote: > One more remark, if as I believe from the comments in the code above, > that the '16:9 crop to 4:3' behaviour is not implemented in > xineliboutput, am I the only one suffering from the lack of this > feature? Am I the only one still using a 4:3 TV? I d

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Bates
Thank you Torgeir for you response. Now I know the correct terminology! Back to general comments. I have had a look at the xineliboutput source code, and it appears that 'centercutout' and 'pan&scan', features which I think are the ones I want, are at best work in progress: xine_frontend.c: a

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 8 Apr 2008, at 16:43, Ian Bates wrote: > What I would like is to maintain the stream 16:9 ratio but by by > cropping the left and right sections of the stream that fall 'outside' > the TV, so the full real estate of the TV is used, at the expense of > losing some stream information. This setti

[vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Bates
Dear all, I have lurked a while on this list but until now have not had reason to post. I am unable to configure xineliboutput to my liking. I don't imagine I am the only one with this issue, but I have not been able to find a solution, either by trial and error or by googling. I would appre