AutoCropper plugin (3 Viewers)

[maysider]

Just started using this plugin, thought I'd drop a wee note to say thanks for developing it. I've been hoping for something of its sort for a while. I hadn't realised how complex it would be to implement until I read this.

Are you still planning on doing horizontal cropping? I (unfortunatlly) am running a uk telewest box through an external powered scart to svideo convertor to my wintv pvr 150 and this results in black borders on all 4 sides even on 4:3 sources. the plugin fixes the top and bottom perfectly but not the sides.

In my case it would be enough to leave the manually configured left and right crop (the ones you get without autocropper) as the bars never change in size. I don't know if this would hold for the other people who wanted horizontal cropping.

ya, this is (as is said) in the plan

 

[ziphnor]

Are you still planning on doing horizontal cropping?

As maysider mentioned, this is a planned feature (and btw if someone else feels like taking a look at my code, it wouldnt be much work either).

Unfortunately this spring have been very busy for me at work (im a PhD student), so i havent had much time to continue work on it. What time i have been able to find have gone into assisting tourettes with the DVB subs. I hope to get a bit more time in May, but again the priority will be DVB subs if more work is needed. If not, my priority will be to move this plug-in to the new TV engine. When that is accomplished im going to clean up the plug-in and include the feature you request.

 

[Noelix]

Although you can't really tell from the thread title, this is the "AutoCropper" plugin thread, correct?

I managed to get the manual cropper working in some situations and then it stopped working altogether. What the plugin does not tell you is how to actually activate the plugin in MP in the first place. It took quite some digging on the forums to find out a method of placing a command on a remote button to activate it. So that worked half the time and the rest of the time it did not. Now it doesn't work at all. Shouldn't this be worked into the context menu alongside all the "zoom" video modes that don't work?

 

[ziphnor]

Although you can't really tell from the thread title, this is the "AutoCropper" plugin thread, correct?

Yes, ive changed the title of the thread now to better reflect the content.

I managed to get the manual cropper working in some situations and then it stopped working altogether.

A bit more information on the nature of the problem as well as your setup would be greatly appreciated. Just saying it doesn't work is not very useful.

I have been using the plug-in for quite a while without issue (in manual mode), but it is possible that some recent changes broke it etc.

Shouldn't this be worked into the context menu alongside all the "zoom" video modes that don't work?

Not sure what you mean by this. What zoom video modes doesn't work?

 

[Noelix]

Sorry, maybe it's better that I just ask questions instead of ranting randomly.

How do you activate the manual cropping mode while watching television/video?

The zoom modes I was referring to (that don't work for me the way I want them to) are referenced in this thread.

 

[ziphnor]

Sorry, maybe it's better that I just ask questions instead of ranting randomly.

How do you activate the manual cropping mode while watching television/video?

There are two actions associated with the plug-in:
ACTION_AUTOCROP = 9884
and
ACTION_TOGGLE_AUTOCROP = 9885

The first one will in manual mode re-calculate the crop
while the second one will switch AutoCropper operating mode between off/auto/on request(manual).

If you run in manual mode with auto-mode disabled in the setup, then ACTION_TOGGLE_AUTOCROP is all you need to map to a key on your remote, as when clicked it will switch between no cropping and calculating a new crop.

 

[ziphnor]

In my case it would be enough to leave the manually configured left and right crop (the ones you get without autocropper) as the bars never change in size. I don't know if this would hold for the other people who wanted horizontal cropping.

Just a little more info on horizontal cropping:
Using the manual crop settings is not very convenient as this is a per-card setting, and the plug-in can used for all kinds of video.

Its probably less work to just auto-detect it

Im not working on it right now, but in order to do so i will need some assorted captures to test on (i only have DVB cards which dont cause horizontal black bars). If you or someone else could make some and upload them to:

ftp.team-mediaportal.com
login:tsdump@team-mediaportal.com
pass: mpuser

it would be great. Please prefix the file name with 'hcrop'.

 

[Noelix]

How do you activate the manual cropping mode while watching television/video?

There are two actions associated with the plug-in:
ACTION_AUTOCROP = 9884
and
ACTION_TOGGLE_AUTOCROP = 9885

The first one will in manual mode re-calculate the crop
while the second one will switch AutoCropper operating mode between off/auto/on request(manual).

If you run in manual mode with auto-mode disabled in the setup, then ACTION_TOGGLE_AUTOCROP is all you need to map to a key on your remote, as when clicked it will switch between no cropping and calculating a new crop.

So in other words you have to assign it a button on your remote to activate it. Has there been any talk about including it in the context menu instead or as an alternative?

 

[ziphnor]

So in other words you have to assign it a button on your remote to activate it.

Yes, and activate the plugin itself under Plugins->Process Plugins as with any other plugin.

Has there been any talk about including it in the context menu instead or as an alternative?

I dont think so.

I guess it could be easily added there, but i suppose its a question of how many people use it.

 

[Noelix]

Has there been any talk about including it in the context menu instead or as an alternative?

I dont think so.

I guess it could be easily added there, but i suppose its a question of how many people use it.

Well put my vote in for a context menu option under "change aspect ratio" - you could have it say "autozoom" or "autocrop". This is merely for a wishlist of course. Thanks ziphnor for all the responses and work you've done with this.