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How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dajiangtang - 2013-10-14

If a video is played in full screen mode and the aspect ratio of the video is not 16:9, the rest of the screen (or in other words: the background color) will be black. I want to set this color to middle gray, which is a good background color for plasma TVs. Does anyone know how to do this in Transparency?

Thanks.

RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - ronie - 2013-10-14

i've looked into this before, but couldn't find a way to do it.
most likely, it's just not possible.

RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - ezechiel1917 - 2013-10-14

<blackbarcolour> in advancedsettings.xml will do the job.

RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dajiangtang - 2013-10-15

(2013-10-14, 09:21)ezechiel1917 Wrote: <blackbarcolour> in advancedsettings.xml will do the job.

It works! Rofl

Thank you!

Code:
<advancedsettings>
  <video>
    <blackbarcolour>128</blackbarcolour>
  </video>
</advancedsettings>


RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-01-06

I just tried this solution, but the setting seems to be ignored. Using the latest Raspbmc-Version. Any idea? I'd love to use this for my Plasma-TV.

RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - PatK - 2014-01-06

(2014-01-06, 20:59)dantist Wrote: I just tried this solution, but the setting seems to be ignored. Using the latest Raspbmc-Version. Any idea? I'd love to use this for my Plasma-TV.
Is this truly getting ignored? Check the debug.log to see what is going on, and if your advanced settings.xml is being read.

RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-01-07

Yes, the advancedsettings.xml is read since I use it for various stuff which all works fine. Only the bars won't turn grey. Do I need to change something in the video settings menu as well? And does this option work with a RPi anyway?

Code:
<advancedsettings>
        <video>
                <usetimeseeking>true</usetimeseeking>
                <timeseekforward>60</timeseekforward>
                <timeseekbackward>-10</timeseekbackward>
                <timeseekforwardbig>600</timeseekforwardbig>
                <timeseekbackwardbig>-180</timeseekbackwardbig>
                <blackbarcolour>128</blackbarcolour>
        </video>
        <audio>
                <streamsilence>1</streamsilence>
        </audio>
        <loglevel>1</loglevel>
        <videolibrary>
                <dateadded>0</dateadded>
        </videolibrary>
</advancedsettings>


RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-06-26

Is this maybe dependent on other video settings? I updated to OpenELEC 4.0 recently and it is still not working, and it's the only setting of my config that is ignored.

RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - PatK - 2014-06-26

Could be the video has encoded within black bars to fill the stated aspect. This function within advancedsettings.xml is still working, just checked it out with Gotham 13.1

RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-06-26

The videos are fine, they are encoded 4:3 and are stretched to full size if this is configured in the 4:3 video settings. So it must be something else..

I really hope to get this feature running because my Plasma TV has quite a sensitive panel. Here's a log of the boot sequence from just now: http://pastebin.com/YLVzEXXU

Thanks a lot