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 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

2008-04-11 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

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

2008-04-09 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 do

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

[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

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 - or perhaps

[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

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 setting

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

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 only one