Stephen Rowles wrote: > Hi all, > > My media centre failed just before Christmas (great timing!) so the > server was pressed into service as a new machine until I can afford to > repair the real one. > > I have set it up now, and output is via an Nvidia card using their > drivers onto a standard CRT TV > > The output resolution is 720x576 PAL, and I have freevo setup with > geometry = 720x576 in freevo.conf which nicely fills the screen, the > nvidia card even gets the output correct so I don't need any overscan. > > However when I play back recorded TV, which should be standard uk > widescreen transmissions xine plays with huge black bars top and bottom > and the output is visibly squashed vertically rather than filling the > screen. Xine is filling the screen as the progress bar appears at the > right place when I skip forward and backward, it is just the video that > is wrong. > > From the ps output it looks like it is using the correct command line: > > /usr/bin/xine --hide-gui -pq -g -B --geometry 720x576 --no-splash > --stdctl -V xxmc -A alsa --no-lirc > file:///data/TV/TV/12-28_18_15_Secret_Millionaire_Changed_My_Life.ts > > Has anyone experienced this, is there something I need to do to get it > working? I am using the same local_conf.py as before as I was able to > restore the config from the old hard disk, so I've never had to do this > before.
Tricky one this, I guess that the black bars are actually part of the recording. So xine plays this back scaled vertically to the screen height and keeps the aspect that is 4:3. So the black bars need to be cropped off and the image aspect needs to be changed to wide-screen. I tend to use mplayer rather than xine and with mplayer you can add mplayer-options to the fxd file which allow specific options for the video. It is also possible to use a <video>.conf in /etc/mplayer or ~/.mplayer. So in the example you can have a 12-28_18_15_Secret_Millionaire_Changed_My_Life.conf file with options for playback. I would be nice to do this automatically, AUTOCROP will fine the crop setting before playback starts but this can freeze on certain video types and does delay the start of playback while running mplayer with the -vf cropdetect. If someone has a better solution then please do say. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
