Video thumbs - squished when viewing by shares, is this right? (1 Viewer)

[coopers]

Hello,

MP is automatically creating video thumbnails for me, that's all good.

However, I tend to browse the folders containing videos by the share view, just because most of my stuff is never going to be identified on IMDB, I am not that patient.

So, the thumb that is generated and displayed is square (or widescreen, or something) but it is squished into a DVD aspect ratio placeholder.

Is there a way to either tell MP to create DVD sized thumbs, or to have it display in correct resolution?

thanks!

 

[mm1352000]

Hi coopers

According to the code the resolution depends entirely on the "number of columns" and "number of rows" settings in the GUI -> Thumbnails section of MP configuration. If you want 16:9 format recordings to look roughly proportionaly in there then the best you can do is choose 1 column and 3 rows. You can try to hack the MediaPortal.xml config file (it can be opened in any text editor) if you want to add more rows - the setting that you're looking for is "tvthumbrows".

mm

 

[coopers]

Thanks, that seems to be the best workaround!

That said, as a suggestion, there is plenty of room for a 16:9 aspect ratio preview on just about all modern screens...