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anyway that you can impliment the same zoom in/zoom out with navigation control of the photos to videos. i tried using the zoom in/ custom / 16x9 / actual/ normal but would like have the ability to move to certain locations when i zoom in instead of just showing the middle of the video.
thanks!
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i think this is critical to usability, especially since "29-01-2005 added: video settings are saved per-file to the video database."
browsing trough the osd to change the zoom level for every movies is cumbersome, especially for non-tech people. it would be so much easier if you could zoom in/out from the remote.
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i have no comprehension of why you'd ever want more than what the default views offer.
please explain where this is useful.
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when you are watching a widescreen dvd/divx on a 4:3 tv you can zoom in a little (but still with black bars on top/bottom) so the movie isn't so small on the tv, you loose a little on the left and right but it's still much better to watch than in widescreen. the "zoom" preset is too much zooming and "strech" is out of the question because it fscks the ar.
before "29-01-2005 added: video settings are saved per-file to the video database." i set up "custom" so it was always about 1.25 zoom and that worked fine for most movies, but now i have to crawl trough the osd for every movie.
i'm fine with the feature that video settings are saved per-file but just add the ability to zoom in/out with the remote up/down buttons trough keymap.xml . it would be so much easier.
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calibrate to compensate for widescreen movies or just obtain them in there proper 4:3 ratio for your 4:3 screen :thumbsup:
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i disagree. the easiest + best solution is to have the default custom mode changable. ie you can setup the zoom + stretch defaults.
i'm not 100% sure, but you may be able to currently set the defaults using settings.xml.
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i think its located on /e/tdata/0face008/settings.xml look under the required resolution.
if thats what jmarshall was on about.
the pixelratio is set to 1.5 by default. alter that to your 1.25 and using custom mode view may solve your problem.
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najt
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altering the pixel ratio is not the answer. but there is this section in settings.xml
<screen>
<viewmode>0</viewmode>
<zoomamount>1.000000</zoomamount>
<pixelratio>1.000000</pixelratio>
</screen>
i tried changing zoomamount to 1.250000 but it is overwritten back to 1.000000 at startup. but i think that would change the zoomamount for the "normal" preset and not "custom".
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confirmed that it is overwritten on startup. this was the intended behaviour until an option was added in the gui. the settings are for the custom view.
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Can XBMC zoom in/out the video image the same way Zoom Player can?