(2014-10-10, 02:55)lrusak Wrote: Why not just use the "Display 4:3 videos as" setting? I use the "wide zoom" option
Here are the other options
Stretch 4:3 - retains the original pixel ratio and stretches the image equally in both directions so that the vertical size matches the screen height. However this does not fill the screen in the horizontal plane so the video is displayed with black bars left and right. No distortion, No missing pixels, Black bars.
Zoom - goes one stage further and continues to stretch the image until the horizontal size matches the screen width. However pixels on the top and bottom are now off screen and thus missing. No Distortion, Missing pixels, No Black Bars.
Wide Zoom tries to improve on zoom by stretching the image slightly less in the vertical plane than the horizontal plane to retain more pixels at the cost of some distortion (slight squashing of the picture). Mild distortion, Less missing pixels, No Black Bars.
Stretch 16:9 - like Wide Zoom, the image is stretched by different ratios in the vertical and horizontal planes so that the vertical size matches the screen height and the horizontal size matches the screen width. However the image is even more squashed than with Wide Zoom. This fills the screen and retains all the pixels, but at the expense of image integrity. People appear short and fat. Maximum distortion, no loss of pixels, No black bars.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Set...s#Playback
@ Jojaco, let me begin by suggesting you mark this thread/report as a
BUG and add if necessary a
Debug log (wiki) to establish your system, OS etc.
In Kodi V14 (what irusak suggests above) this is totally broken and does have zero effect, Last time this worked for me was around V12, V13 after that is dead. See
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/15476 (I doubt any bugs in v13 will be fixed anyway at this stage when V14 is nearing beta1)
things you can try.
1) Via
Video_playback#OSD_video_settings (wiki) Change the view mode and cycle to
16:9 then you can
optionally enable
Non linear stretch (to fix the fat people irusak describes) -- Be warned, when you
save for all videos its just a mess when you play non
4:3 material/content.
Alternative to 1)
1 a ) For best results you can also play with the
pixel ratio, for me the default is
1:00 and changing to a value of
1:10 does the job (find a
ratio that works for you) +
non linear stretch. To
fix the fat people. Again if you
save this for all videos non 4:3 material/content will playback in wrong ratio, imo either another bug, but maybe its all connected. idk
these bits are somewhat messy atm.
To avoid this completely anarchy from saving those settings above -- I dont use any of the above - What I do in meanwhile is:
2)
Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars set to
20% that will decrease the size of the black bars which are seen vertically.
That's as good as you gonna get. until someone looks into the bug
In meanwhile already given a sample 4:3 Video to
@fritsch/b[] for testing but given these guy are going off to the [b]DevCon I doubt anyone will care much for looking at bug reports never mind fixing them.
hope that helps you, it certainly took me a while fiddling with things since 4:3 content is very prevalent in older tv series things us older people seem to have in their collections
