Re: [Bino-list] zoom settings

[Martin Lambers]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:10:27 +0100, Martin Lambers wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:28:43 +0100, Frédéric Devernay wrote:
> > What should the zoom choices be?
> > I can imagine a selection of three choices, the third having a value
> > attached to it:
> > - fit to screen (the previous behaviour)
> > - fill the screen (the current behaviour with zoom=1)
> > - custom zoom (to get rid of letterboxing or pillarboxing), from 1.0
> > (fit to screen) to 2.0 (2x magnification), maybe with a slider and
> > an entry to type the value manually
> 
> OK, I improved the zoom setting in the following way:
> - Moved it to its own GUI dialog, as it did not really belong
>   into the video settings (because it is not saved per-video).
> - Added short documentation to the dialog.
> - Extended the zoom range from 0 to 2; 0 = fit to screen, 1 = fill
>   screen, > 1: zoom even more (for videos that have black borders
>   hard coded).
> This way, it is still a single setting with slider and value box.

Hm, I realize that this is also not a good solution - it does not work
in a comparable way with 4:3 and 16:9 screens. Maybe because we are
mixing two things. How about having two separate settings:
1) Zoom for videos that are wider than the screen, from 0 = fit to
screen to 1 = fill screen (as originally)
2) Custom magnification between e.g. 1/4 and 4. That should take care of
videos that have hard coded black bars.
Maybe 1) should be remembered per-session and 2) per-video?

What do you think?
Martin