Pascal Schirrmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 16/9 TV (the old way, that is the resolution doesn't change, > but the picture is 'stretched'. > I have also a Hauppauge PVR-350, and I use the output of this card to > connect to my TV. > > For now, freevo is setup in 720x576 (PAL standard), and the menu are in > 4/3 format (not a problem). > > Also, if I have a 16/9 movie, it is displayed in 4/3 size (letterbox), > and I have to zoom on the TV, with a poor video result. > > I found some configuration to put mplayer and xine in 16/9 mode, and > recently discovered the 'panorama' skin who seems to be created for such > configuration. > > Now the question is : Do someone already wrote something about this kind > of configuration, is there some 'freevo magic' to deal with that, do you > have any information ?
I have a similar problem, 16x9 TV and a both nvidia and PVR-350 cards, but have not found a satisfactory solution. mplayer seems to compress the video vertically so the movie has black borders all round. The quality looks good. IIRC the video signal should be compressed horizontally. The "-monitoraspect 16:9" option to mplayer helps, but is not good when a video is 16x9. It seems that most people you have this working are using different video cards (VIA, Matrox G400). All I found when googling around what that the 16x9 is non-standard and not really supported. mpeg files can have a field that says if a video is 16x9 and TV uses the wss (wide screen signal) in the vbi data. Hopefully someone knows a solution that doesn't require a TV with VGA input. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
