On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:51:24PM +0100, Hugo Visser wrote:
>
> On Feb 25, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> > It is already supported (softdevice.CropMode); see the plugin setup
> > menu.
> > The setting is hidden on the topmost submenu (something about
> > cropping;
> > I'm using the Finnish OSD).
>
> Well, I've tried that option already and I've just tried it again to
> confirm, but the cropping option seems to be the opposite of what I
> want.
> The "problem" is that quite a few channels are broadcasting series
> and such that are in 16:9 in 4:3. So then I'll have black bars around
> the picture. Cropping to 16:9 just flattens the picture and stretches
> it horizontally. That doesn't give the correct aspect and the black
> bars above and below the picture remain. What it should do is zoom
> the picture, so that the black bars get "out of screen" to fill the
> entire screen. I'm running on DirectFB, maybe that matters?
>
> I think the aspect settings I've set up in softdevice are correct, as
> regular 16:9 broadcasts are "full screen".
>
> Maybe I'm missing the point, if so could someone point me in the
> right direction?
Sorry, I only have a 4:3 monitor, and there the cropping does work
(cutting from the left and right, so that the center of the 16:9 picture
fills the 4:3 screen). I assumed that 4:3 footage would be similarly
stretched on a 16:9 screen.
Marko
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