Gamester17
July 16th, 2008, 02:18 PM
Please, by default, "Stretch to 14:9" all 4:3 aspect-ratio videos to fill a widescreen display.
That way if you own a widescreen (16:9 or 16:10) aspect-ratio TV, and to be honest who doesn't today, all the videos that have natively 4:3 aspect-ratio will fill up the whole screen, and almost look like they are natively of widescreen aspect-ratio as well, ...if you do don't like this then you can change it manually via the OSD.
Today this is not the case in Boxee, today all 4:3 videos played back on a widescreen TV does not fill up the screen by default but instead play with big black bars on the right and left side of the video, and you manually have to go into the OSD to change this to stretch to 16:9, zoom to 16:9, or 14:9 (stretching a 4:3 video to 16:9 looks a bit odd though, zooming looks better but it cuts of quite a bit from the top and bottom part, therefore I think it looks more natural to stretching it 14:9 look more natural and is a better compromise).
[EDIT] PS! "Pan and Scan" might be the wrong terminology for what "Stretch 14:9" in Boxee does. Accoding to the wikipedia article "Pan and Scan" is what you do when you display 16:9 video on a 4:3 display (by cropping the left and right side), not the vice versa which is what I am asking for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan
That way if you own a widescreen (16:9 or 16:10) aspect-ratio TV, and to be honest who doesn't today, all the videos that have natively 4:3 aspect-ratio will fill up the whole screen, and almost look like they are natively of widescreen aspect-ratio as well, ...if you do don't like this then you can change it manually via the OSD.
Today this is not the case in Boxee, today all 4:3 videos played back on a widescreen TV does not fill up the screen by default but instead play with big black bars on the right and left side of the video, and you manually have to go into the OSD to change this to stretch to 16:9, zoom to 16:9, or 14:9 (stretching a 4:3 video to 16:9 looks a bit odd though, zooming looks better but it cuts of quite a bit from the top and bottom part, therefore I think it looks more natural to stretching it 14:9 look more natural and is a better compromise).
[EDIT] PS! "Pan and Scan" might be the wrong terminology for what "Stretch 14:9" in Boxee does. Accoding to the wikipedia article "Pan and Scan" is what you do when you display 16:9 video on a 4:3 display (by cropping the left and right side), not the vice versa which is what I am asking for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan