Re: [Bino-list] Bino 1.3.0 is released!

[Hubert Unger]

Ok. That's not what i was expecting from a zoom setting.

Are there any plans for implementing a real zooming feature to get a video 
fullscreen?
Zooming a 21:9 video to play fullscreen on a 16:9 display.


Am 31.01.2012 um 17:03 schrieb Martin Lambers:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:37:26 +0100, Hubert Unger wrote:
>> I can't get the zoom feature to work.
>> No matter what factor i set, it doesn't affect the playing video.
>> Restarting Bino doesn't help either.
> 
> Zoom has only an effect if the video is wider than the screen, for
> example if you play 16:9 video on a 4:3 screen.
> 
> In this case, there are two possibilities:
> (1) Show the whole width of the video. This requires black bars at the
> top and bottom.
> (2) Use the whole height of the screen. This means that the left and
> ride side of the video are not visible anymore.
> 
> The zoom setting allows a compromise between (1) (zoom = 0) and (2)
> (zoom = 1).
> 
> If the video is not wider than the screen, and thus fits completely on
> the screen while using the full screen height, then (1) and (2) are the
> same and the zoom setting has no effect at all.
> 
> Maybe this feature should be renamed since it does not actually allow
> arbitrary zooming of video content.
> 
> Martin
>