4:3 screen instead of 16:9

Hi...

In Australia the standard set for Digital Broadcast is 16:9 whereas for
Analogue it's still 4:3

So what you would be asking for here would be essentially a zoom
feature ? Like what some DVB set-top boxes have. is this correct ?

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 13:44 +0000, mustis wrote:

> New question #65762 on Me TV:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/me-tv/+question/65762
>
> First thank you very much for excellent application !
>
> I have 4:3 display at home and unfortunately MeTV shows most of the tv-programs in 16:9 mode. Is it possible to change the aspect ratio so that also people who have 4:3 display can see tv-programs without black boxes (up and down in the screen) ?
>
> Changing aspect ratio doesn't have to happen automatically by pressing certain button. I would be very happy if I could manually change setting permanently to 4:3 in one of configuration files in MeTV application. Is this possible ?
>

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Also in Finland standard set for Digital Broadcast is 16:9. Anyhow some of the programs are still in 4:3 format.

Yes, I'm basically asking for a scaling/zooming option like some dvb set-top boxes have. Only difference is that they have several zooming options but in this case only one option (16:9 -> 4:3) is needed. Maybe also in some other counties this option would solve most of the challenges with the ratios.

Solution doesn't need to be fancy. The key thing is that it works even if I need to edit some configuration files.

Let's see if we can get xine to do it for us,

* Use xine to work out which setting in the ~/.xine/config file changes the aspect ratio
* Copy that setting into the ~/.me-tv/xine.config and see if that works

I found ~/.me-tv/xine.config - file but I didn't understand this : "Use xine to work out which setting in the ~/.xine/config file changes the aspect ratio".

I was able to change the ratios of the screen by pressing "a" when Xine was playing but I don't understand what I should copy to xine.config-file.

I guess that xine doesn't persist this setting. If you feel like busting-out gcc, you could just add,

 argv.push_back("-r");
 argv.push_back("4:3");

to line 64 of src/xine_engine.cc.

You wrote that I should add lines to src/xine_engine.cc - file. Which release are you referring to ? I'm still using 0.5.30 because I'm Ubuntu 8.10. user and 0.5.30 is the latest release in their reposities. I tried to update to the newest release "manually" but something went wrong and I returned back to 0.5.30 release.

To which line (in xine_engine.cc-file) should I add those lines in 0.5.30 release ?

Thanks for your very valuable help !

I'm referring to 0.7 or 0.8, I don't know how to do that in 0.5. I will not be adding any new features to 0.5, especially Lenny or Intrepid because they are now stable. If you want to new features then you need to be using the latest development version. 0.5.30 is about a year old now and I will only supply security fixes for it. Sorry.

Thanks,

Michael

xine_engine.cc - file isn't the same in 0.7.0 and in 0.8.0 versions.

Would you please give me new detailed instructions where I should add those lines in 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 versions ?

 I'd like to test both versions (0.7.0 and 0.8.0) with my Ubuntu.

Thank you ...

Any time to look at my question ?

Thanks for your help !

p.s. I have now upgraded my Ubuntu to Jaunty.

Thanks Michael Lamothe, that solved my question.