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Hi All,
Many of us use Kodi with a projector on a 2m screen. I've been thinking about constructing an ambilight system but it is a little mess with such large screen size. I wonder if it is technically possible to add an ambilight video mode (in addition to the 2d and 3d video modes) that would play a movie with the image scaled down a little bit (some configurable fraction of the screen), and using the generated borders to apply the ambilight effect without any third party tool.
Its just an idea, I assume there are other priorities in this great project.
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Could you rephrase or clarify your request? I don't understand really. Thats what the boblight addon is ment to be used for imo.
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Sorry. If I'm right boblight is an external program and the kodi addon uses it to control the leds of an ambilight system. What I mean is to use only kodi with no leds or external programs, simply by scaling down the video (which is already possible) and 'decorating' the resulting borders of the screen around the video with the adequate colors, instead of sending them as commands to boblight. I suppose the effect will not be the same, but close.
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I still miss the key fact here. If you don't use leds. What do you do to show the border colors then instead?
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2015-05-27, 11:45
(This post was last modified: 2015-05-27, 11:46 by da-anda.)
he want's the main movie scaled down and the resulting empty space of the screen filled with colour in an ambilight way, so that he can make his projector not only cover the canvas but go beyond, while the main movie will still be limited (scaled down) to the canvas size.
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2015-05-27, 13:33
(This post was last modified: 2015-05-27, 13:33 by Memphiz.)
ahh ok. Sounds like this is not easily doable (because the whole rendering assumes that the canvas is where we want to see the movie. There is no inner and outer border or something strange like that). Also this would involve "drawing" on the texture while normal video playback just uploads a frame/image and binds it to a texture.
All in all a nice idea for a very limited userbase and only 2 or 3 people in our team which would have the skills to accomplish it i think.
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Could be neat for projection systems, but yeah, sounds like a lot of work.
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One of the main ideas of ambilight is to visually "extend" the screen. I don't really see a logical scenario to scale down the screen just to extend it again with a "blurry border" O_o
I still would prefer adding LEDs behind the white screen, it looks incredible:
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Ah now I get it. Sry, missunderstood the request.
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