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General => Users => Topic started by: bart on June 03, 2007, 09:57:55 pm
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I couldn't find a way to adjust A/V sync and/or zoom into my media with LinuxMCE. 'z' didn't seem to work. Is it supported? Can I enable it somehow? I skimmed through xine.conf but couldn't find anything yet. I used to use these features a lot with mplayer.
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The xine-ui keybindings won't work becase LinuxMCE Xine Player is a custom application built on top of xine-lib, not on top of xine-ui
Zoom functionality is planned to be present in the LinuxMCE 1.1, but it is not available in beta 2.
A/V sync is not planned to be present in LinuxMCE 1.1, so this is probably 1.2 feature-list plan.
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If zoom is planned for 1.1 how about auto aspect ratio detection?
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Is it perhaps possible to easily map, for example, the current brightness buttons to, for example, A/V sync? Or am I looking at it too simple?
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If zoom is planned for 1.1 how about auto aspect ratio detection?
This feature is on the top of my list at the moment. Any word from the developers on this issue?
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right now, this is not considered a priority.
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Might i inquire why aspect ratio is not a priority? I know that there are numerous poeple, here and on the pluto forums who are experiencing issues with widescreen monitors and wrong aspect ratios for DVDs. It seems that this feature would benefit quite a few people and wouldn't be too much of a headache to implement.
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@norcal
i understand you very well and i'd like to change the aspect ratio at different videos, but this is what the main developer of xine_player said.
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ooops, sorry i thought you were the dev ;) Cheers.
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Displaying the correct aspect ratio is may more important than being able to zoom IMOP. Currently on my 16:9 display, DVD's and SD shows recorded from the Mythbackend are squished horizontally. It's basically unwatchable. I either have to watch the show from inside the MythTV frontend which is annoying, or I have to set my TV to zoom. The 2nd option is bad because it causes a significant portion of the top and bottom of the image to get chopped off.
Xine natively supports auto aspect ratio detection. Please reconsider making this a priority for the 1.1 release.
Thanks
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i already put this as a future requested feature in linuxmce mantis.
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Displaying the correct aspect ratio is may more important than being able to zoom IMOP.
Sorry, i guess i wasn't clear. I too was referring to correct auto-aspect ratio, not zoom.
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Yeah! Auto aspect IS VERY important. Should be one the top 5 to be fixed!
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so, sign a petition for this ;D
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Xine natively supports auto aspect ratio detection.
Looks like Xine doesn't detect the correct ratio for these recorded movies. If you are experienced with Linux, can you try to play the same recorded video say, with Kaffeine and see if it will do auto-detect correctly. If it does detect it OK, please provide the version of libxine installed (in console you can do
dpkg -s libxine1 | grep Version
for this). If it doesn't detect, then this means the current libxine is just not capable to detect them (and should be considered as a bug - in which case we will ask you to provide a sample of such video file for checking :)
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Autodetection of aspect ratio should be present in Xine player, when you do not get correct aspect ratio, this means it failed for certain movie :) This generates an idea that it would be nicer to have ability to change the aspect ratio 'on fly' - and override the AR when it is set to wrong value.
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Are you saying to playback the recorded shows using Kaffeine from inside LinuxMCE? I didn't think that was possible.
Outside of LMCE, Xine correctly detects the aspect ratio of my content. Last night I tried to watch a DVD (Click) from within LinuxMCE and it was squished horizontally. I then exited to the KDE desktop and launched Xine directly without any options except deinterlacing enabled. It played fine. I have modified my xorg.conf file to include the "DisplaySize" option. I'm not sure if Xine would have displayed the movie correctly on my 16:9 TV without that option. I'll remove that option tonight and try it again. I'll also post a couple of screen shots so people with 4:3 TV's can see what those of us with 16:9 TV's are complaining about :)
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Audio Track selection isn't working either. Tried -/+ which of course didn't work. :(
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Autodetection of aspect ratio should be present in Xine player, when you do not get correct aspect ratio, this means it failed for certain movie :) This generates an idea that it would be nicer to have ability to change the aspect ratio 'on fly' - and override the AR when it is set to wrong value.
Xine_Player does appear to detect some content correctly. I can playback XVID encoded HDTV shows just fine. It also seems to handle 1080i\720p MPEG2 files,but it doesn't do well with 4:3 MPEG2 TV or DVD's. The common denominator is that 16:9 content is displayed correctly on my 16:9 TV, but 4:3 or 1.85 isn't.
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Here's the libxine that I'm using:
chris@dcerouter:~$ sudo dpkg -s libxine1 | grep Version
Password:
Version: 1.1.4-2ubuntu3
Here are a couple of screen shots of a show that I recorded from analog cable(NTSC) using the mythbackend and my PVR-150 capture card. The image tvCapture_LMCE.jpg was taken of the video played back inside LMCE. tvCapture_xine.jpg was taken while playing back the video from xine directly. The LMCE version is clearly squished horizontally. See attachments.
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Indeed, screenshot looks bad :) I suggest to wait for the beta 3, where aspect ratio change function should become available. Also, to my knowledge, beta3 will contain a fix for detection of display (i.e. monitor, TFT panel, etc.) aspect ratio. Hope this will solve AR issue.
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I can't wait for the Beta3. This issue and my MythTV HD playback woes are the only things that are preventing me from fully enjoying LMCE.
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This issue and my MythTV HD playback woes are the only things that are preventing me from fully enjoying LMCE.
I agree, these are big hangups for me as well. Hope the release is coming along. Cheers.