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Hi
I have a 16:10 monitor (1680x1050), so every skin looks distorted on it. Is there a way to calibrate the screen, so that the SKIN is letterboxed, but the video playback is unaffected? If I calibrate it the usual way and squish the skin vertically, all movies get distorted. Can I:
- calibrate the screen for video and skins independently?
or
- trick the video player into ignoring the screen calibration?
or
- modify a skin to add black bars to it? (I know this is possible, but I think I'd have to edit lots of files, which is very inconvenient).
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paste the addon.xml of the skin you use and I might be able to show you an easy way
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If you calibrated so that an exact 16x9 frame was achieved with black borders, then video playback will be fine inside that frame. Just don't alter the pixel ratio.
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After modifing the addon.xml file I didn't notice any changes in XBMC (this may be the skin's fault).
Can you upload your Confluence mod somewhere?
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Sure at work now though so will upload it later when I get home
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I would like that too since my PC screen is also 16:10 and 2h seems like a lot of work to do just one thing so thank you very much.
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This is the regular version for nightly builds of XBMC and yeah its different and yeah I missed skin settings
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Well OK then.. u did ask us to test.. and I tend to notice all the details, sorry about that.
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Oh don't get me wrong it wasn't a complaint I was just confirming that I forgot to do that window if you find anymore inconsistencies then feel free to post them
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I have never modified a skin before, But I'd like to try to modify one to fit the 2.35:1 aspect ratio of my projection screen. Essentially I'll want to add black bars to the top and bottom of an existing skin. Can you give me some pointers on where to start?
else it will have 1 black bar at the bottom
