I’ve a Lenovo 3000 n200 laptop with a fresh install of openSuSE 11.0. It has a widescreen 15,4" with the resolution of 1280x800.
The problem is that when I watch a movie in xine in fullscreen mode I have a wide black border on the right side, as if the screen is shrunk to 4:3. I tried changing the aspect ratio in xine-ui’s preferences, but it didn’t help - I still have the border no matter what aspect ratio I choose.
I tried using VLC instead of xine; there I get normal picture the first time I go to fullscreen, but if I go to window mode and then to fullscreen, I get the border on the right side all the same.
It only happens when playing videos, the rest of X functions perfectly well. I tried adjusting the settings in xorg.conf to set horizontal size of the screen to a bigger number, but it didn’t help either, so I’m a bit puzzled here.
Any ideas will be appreciated
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 18:16 +0000, asquante wrote:
> Hello
>
> I’ve a Lenovo 3000 n200 laptop with a fresh install of openSuSE 11.0.
> It has a widescreen 15,4" with the resolution of 1280x800.
> The problem is that when I watch a movie in xine in fullscreen mode I
> have a wide black border on the right side, as if the screen is shrunk
> to 4:3. I tried changing the aspect ratio in xine-ui’s preferences, but
> it didn’t help - I still have the border no matter what aspect ratio I
> choose.
So you’re wanting distorted scaling right? You want the 4:3 aspect
formatted video to be stretched (to make everything look fat)? Right?
I’m wondering if supporting something like that was ever a goal
of those players (??).
Check out some of the video postprocess add-ons in xine and see
if any those will help.
> I tried using VLC instead of xine; there I get normal picture the first
> time I go to fullscreen, but if I go to window mode and then to
> fullscreen, I get the border on the right side all the same.
> It only happens when playing videos, the rest of X functions perfectly
> well. I tried adjusting the settings in xorg.conf to set horizontal
> size of the screen to a bigger number, but it didn’t help either, so
> I’m a bit puzzled here.
> Any ideas will be appreciated
>
>
The offset bothers me a bit… but you know THERE ARE some movies
that work this way. I believe Robin Hood (the Kevin Costner one)
does something like this as well.
But if it’s happening even with new titles… I have no idea.
Have you tried mplayer?
Does it do the same thing inside of kaffeine (xine based)?
It happens to any movie in widescreen format I try to watch, so I don’t think it’s the movie itself that’s causing the problem.
I tried kaffeine - there’s no border on the right in fullscreen mode there, even though it uses xine engine too o_O Functions great.
Of course it might solve the problem, but I’m a bit used to xine-ui, not to mention that I’m very puzzled and want to understand what’s the root of the problem after all %)
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:36 +0000, asquante wrote:
> It happens to any movie in widescreen format I try to watch, so I don’t
> think it’s the movie itself that’s causing the problem.
> I tried kaffeine - there’s no border on the right in fullscreen mode
> there, even though it uses xine engine too o_O Functions great.
> Of course it might solve the problem, but I’m a bit used to xine-ui,
> not to mention that I’m very puzzled and want to understand what’s the
> root of the problem after all %)
>
>
I did see this problem yesterday. It was a SLES9 box. I use 10.3
mostly for desktop use… haven’t seen the problem there. But
I can’t say what version levels I’m at. I’m posting this from
a 10.2 machine, but it has a 4x3 aspect monitor.
