Panorama skin WAS: Re: Interesting failure

Michael Beal wrote:

<snip>
> Now working on adjusting Panorama skin from 4:3 to
16:9.  If anyone
> wants it when I'm done, let me know.
>   
I thought the panorama skin was designed for 16:9?
Regardless do post 
your work to the list, there's always someone who might use
it.

John

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On 8/12/07, John Molohan <john.molohangcd.ie> wrote:
> Michael Beal wrote:
> <snip>
> > Now working on adjusting Panorama skin from 4:3 to
16:9.  If anyone
> > wants it when I'm done, let me know.
>
> I thought the panorama skin was designed for 16:9?
Regardless do post
> your work to the list, there's always someone who might
use it.

It's designed for 16:9 anamorphic screens, i.e. 4:3 when
using square pixels.

Now I've got an HD TV with VGA input, I was thinking of
doing the
same, but at the moment I'm still running Freevo at 800x600:
I've got
nowhere near the CPU to decode HD video.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Panorama, as it is, fails miserably at 16:9.  Preview images
and
watermarks are squashed horizontally even after editing the
images to
make them square; CD covers are never displayed square as
well; text on
screens larger than 22in. is hazy; screen object placement
is still
handled at 800x600 (4:3) resolution; and renaming Favorites
at
resolutions above 800x600 is impossible due to text not
being
displayed. (This has been a problem in Freevo since day one
for me. 
I've always had to fix the skins to display text when
renaming
Favorites at resolutions above 800x600.)

I think I have it all complete with very limited exception. 
I'll test
it out fully over the coming week and make a few other
changes as well
as a few different versions of the skin, i.e. different
color schemes,
different icon themes, etc...  When I have everything built
to suit me,
I'll post to the list as a tarball for installation.  I'll
also post up
the fixed skins for text display at resolutions above
800x600 bug.

Question: Is anyone using 6-channel audio output from their
motherboard
other than me?  I've got the 6-channel volume controls
worked out for
ALSA and I've been using them for the past year and with
various
versions of Freevo without serious issue.  If anyone wants
them, and
the fixed plugins that go with it, let me know.

--- John Molohan <john.molohangcd.ie> wrote:

> Michael Beal wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Now working on adjusting Panorama skin from 4:3 to
16:9.  If anyone
> > wants it when I'm done, let me know.
> >   
> I thought the panorama skin was designed for 16:9?
Regardless do post
> 
> your work to the list, there's always someone who might
use it.
> 
> John
> 
>
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On 8/13/07, Michael Beal <mlbeal2003yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Panorama, as it is, fails miserably at 16:9.

Strong, and somewhat emotive words. I'm aware of only two
bugs in
Freevo with Panorama (or, more specifically, anamorphic
skins):

  * The current version's "Recording status"
idlebar plugin looks
    vertically squashed.

  * "Recordings Manager" seems to plot a
background image as a foreground
    image, given the former are pre-rendered horizontally
anamorphic and
    the latter are anamophisised at runtime, this results in
double
    compression.

> Preview images and watermarks are squashed horizontally
even after
> editing the images to make them square; CD covers are
never displayed
> square as well;

Eh, what's "editing the images to make them
square"? If a skin is
marked as "anamorphic" in the skin definition, any
image which is
sourced from outside the skin (effectively) is scaled at
runtime so
that when stretched with non-square pixels on a 16:9 TV it
will
display correctly.

> text on screens larger than 22in. is hazy;

Well, it looks OK on my 32" screen running at 800x600
with VGA
connection. It looks excellent, in fact.

> screen object placement is still handled at 800x600
(4:3) resolution;

Yes, that's the point. But you're confusing display
resolution (4:3)
with render resolution (800x600). On an anamorphic display
the pixels
aren't square.

> and renaming Favorites at resolutions above 800x600 is
impossible due to
> text not being displayed. (This has been a problem in
Freevo since day
> one for me. I've always had to fix the skins to display
text when
> renaming Favorites at resolutions above 800x600.)

I've not seen this before, what's the tracker ID?

> I think I have it all complete with very limited
exception.  I'll test
> it out fully over the coming week and make a few other
changes as well
> as a few different versions of the skin, i.e. different
color schemes,
> different icon themes, etc...  When I have everything
built to suit me,
> I'll post to the list as a tarball for installation. 
I'll also post up
> the fixed skins for text display at resolutions above
800x600 bug.

I look forward to seeing the results.

Cheers,

Andrew

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:12:58PM +0200, Duncan Webb
wrote:
> 
> MPlayer is a bit poor with videos that are 16x9 it
seems to shrink them
> vertically so the video has nice black borders.
>
I have a lot of videos that display as you say but they are
corrected if
I force its aspect ratio with "-aspect 16:9",
"-aspect 1.85:1" etc...
My "monitoraspect" variable is set to 16:9
always.

I made a plugin that adds a submenu entry for changing it
before playing
the movie but didn't submit it because I suppose a FXD will
work too and
other people binds the aspect ratio to some buttons on the
remote.

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On 8/21/07, Gorka Olaizola <gorkaescomposlinux.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:12:58PM +0200, Duncan Webb
wrote:
> >
> > MPlayer is a bit poor with videos that are 16x9 it
seems to shrink them
> > vertically so the video has nice black borders.
> >
> I have a lot of videos that display as you say but they
are corrected if
> I force its aspect ratio with "-aspect 16:9",
"-aspect 1.85:1" etc...
> My "monitoraspect" variable is set to 16:9
always.
>
> I made a plugin that adds a submenu entry for changing
it before playing
> the movie but didn't submit it because I suppose a FXD
will work too and
> other people binds the aspect ratio to some buttons on
the remote.
>
Ooh Ooh. Please submit. I've tried really hard to do this in
the
pastand failed..  This would be a *great* feature.  Yes,
users can do
this via remote, but to beable to hard code it would also be
great..

Mick

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On 8/23/07, Duncan Webb <duncanfreevo.org> wrote:
> José María Franco Fraiz wrote:
> >
> > I have this in my local_config.py:
> >
> > EVENTS['video']['RED']     =
Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
> > arg='switch_ratio 1.77778')
> > EVENTS['video']['GREEN']   =
Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
> > arg='switch_ratio 1.33333')
>
> Thanks for this it is useful information.

Indeed. The last time I added EVENTS assignments to my
local_conf.py,
it broke `freevo schedulefavorites' due to the EVENTS map
not being
available at that point.

Was this something I did wrong, a known problem, or
something nobody
else has encountered? (I haven't had a chance to reproduce
so no
tracker item yet).

Cheers,

Andrew

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