2003-10-01, 13:00
first, a small confession: this was something i was thinking of requestion for xbmp so it's possible it's in xbmc. if that's the case, my apologies for taking up your time.
i've been watching a lot of various things lately, including some old divx and some svcd-class mpeg2 files and i've had a fair bit of trouble with aspect ratio, particularly with 4:3 svcds. my cheap-assed pal widescreen tv can't squash an rgb signal down from 16:9 to 4:3, and xbmp can't seem to do it either outside of manually setting the aspect ratio in settings -> screen, and that's rather fiddly.
what i was wondering was this. could be have a single button in the gui somewhere (or even dedicated on the remote) to toggle through some common pre-defined aspect ratios? 4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1; the effect would be the same as setting that aspect ratio in the adjuster under settings, but easier to get at. whatever the source resolution is would be appropriate re-sized to give the selected output.
i appreciate that this isn't going to solve all the problem files, but the settings menu is there for weird files; the idea is that this would be a quick and easy way to adjust most files.
if people think this is worthwhile i'll file a proper fr on sourceforge. i'd look into coding it myself but (a) i'm bloody poor at c and (b) i have no means to compile for testing, unfortunately. roll on the openxdk team.
i've been watching a lot of various things lately, including some old divx and some svcd-class mpeg2 files and i've had a fair bit of trouble with aspect ratio, particularly with 4:3 svcds. my cheap-assed pal widescreen tv can't squash an rgb signal down from 16:9 to 4:3, and xbmp can't seem to do it either outside of manually setting the aspect ratio in settings -> screen, and that's rather fiddly.
what i was wondering was this. could be have a single button in the gui somewhere (or even dedicated on the remote) to toggle through some common pre-defined aspect ratios? 4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1; the effect would be the same as setting that aspect ratio in the adjuster under settings, but easier to get at. whatever the source resolution is would be appropriate re-sized to give the selected output.
i appreciate that this isn't going to solve all the problem files, but the settings menu is there for weird files; the idea is that this would be a quick and easy way to adjust most files.
if people think this is worthwhile i'll file a proper fr on sourceforge. i'd look into coding it myself but (a) i'm bloody poor at c and (b) i have no means to compile for testing, unfortunately. roll on the openxdk team.