Hi All,
This is a thread to discuss ideas specific for using XBMC with a projector. Most use is the same as with a normal screen, but with a projector you run into some specific issues.
To start with some:
CIH (Constant Image Height) setups
These need support for automatic zooming (of the projector hardware, not in software).
'mikper' has already done some work here.
Avoid menus
While my better half can accept the occasional fiddling she (and I) hates sudden menus popping up during a movie. The reason I mention it here is that it is really more obnoxious in a dark room where the screen is two meters wide - on a TV with the lights on it is just not that big an issue.
Which means no "show a menu if the mouse moves a fraction" and also any feature you might reasonably need while watching (audio sync, subtitle sync, subtitle position, etc) must optionally function without a menu. The easiest quickfix is setting the "pixels to move mouse before showing cursor" higher, preferable using advanced settings and hope it will be accepted into XBMC.
External DVD subtitles
Not because of languages not available on disc, but mostly because DVD subtitles are just too big on a projected screen.
I am working on this, but it is slow going - too much code all over the place and too little time ;-)
Vertical image shift
Locating a video edge to the screen edge is sometimes important cause of the perceived contrast.
I already supplied a patch for this myself.
This is a thread to discuss ideas specific for using XBMC with a projector. Most use is the same as with a normal screen, but with a projector you run into some specific issues.
To start with some:
CIH (Constant Image Height) setups
These need support for automatic zooming (of the projector hardware, not in software).
'mikper' has already done some work here.
Avoid menus
While my better half can accept the occasional fiddling she (and I) hates sudden menus popping up during a movie. The reason I mention it here is that it is really more obnoxious in a dark room where the screen is two meters wide - on a TV with the lights on it is just not that big an issue.
Which means no "show a menu if the mouse moves a fraction" and also any feature you might reasonably need while watching (audio sync, subtitle sync, subtitle position, etc) must optionally function without a menu. The easiest quickfix is setting the "pixels to move mouse before showing cursor" higher, preferable using advanced settings and hope it will be accepted into XBMC.
External DVD subtitles
Not because of languages not available on disc, but mostly because DVD subtitles are just too big on a projected screen.
I am working on this, but it is slow going - too much code all over the place and too little time ;-)
Vertical image shift
Locating a video edge to the screen edge is sometimes important cause of the perceived contrast.
I already supplied a patch for this myself.
)
