Adam Williamson wrote:
> The default xine config in 1.5.4 appears to be
> duff. /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py contains these two settings:
>
> XINE_COMMAND = '%s --hide-gui -pq -g -B --geometry %sx%s+0+0
> --no-splash' % \
>                  (CONF.xine, CONF.width, CONF.height)
>
> XINE_ARGS_DEF = '--no-lirc --post=pp:quality=10;expand'
>
> Combined, these settings cause Freevo to play any widescreen videos -
> e.g. several 1024x576 .avi files I have - in 4:3, when you're running it
> at 4:3 resolution (e.g. 800x600) and using Xine as the default video
> player. The video is stretched to the 4:3 resolution and consequently
> looks completely wrong. I think the culprit is the 'expand' option in
> the XINE_ARGS_DEF. 

Sorry, I have a 4:3 tv and so I never saw the problem. I guess the
best way to fix this is to use a 16:9 resolution in Freevo,
too. Someone needs to create a nice 16:9 skin to make it all working. 

> Widescreen and normal video files now both play correctly for me (i.e.
> the widescreen videos are letterboxed so they appear with the correct
> aspect ratio).

I don't use xine that much right now and I don't know all the command
line args. For Freevo 2.0 we will use our own player based on xine-lib
with much more control of the window. I guess this would fix a lot of
problems we have right now. Xine-lib is great, it is xine-ui that
sucks. 


Dischi

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