[vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

[Torgeir Veimo]

On 8 Apr 2008, at 16:43, Ian Bates wrote:

> What I would like is to maintain the stream 16:9 ratio but by by
> cropping the left and right sections of the stream that fall 'outside'
> the TV, so the full real estate of the TV is used, at the expense of
> losing some stream information.

This setting is most often called crop mode. The specific setting  
you're after is often called pan-and-scan.

I can't say how to achieve the desired output with xineliboutput  
though, since I use softdevice.

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Torgeir Veimo
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