[Finished] ViewModeSwitcher for 1.4.0 (3 Viewers)

[ThreepH]

Yes I know, thats the comfortability of IFC which I miss as the only issue.
I had mapped that option to my X10 button "angle", and it would be a nice icing on the cake, if VMS could make this work as well.
One button to switch through the modes
Comes quite handy for cutscenes where the AR is weird, subtitles of 4:3 are cut (when displaying it as "zoom") etc. Going through the menu works of course, but is not a quickly responsing solution.
Just to explain what I have in mind

 

[Owlsroost]

I had mapped that option to my X10 button "angle", and it would be a nice icing on the cake, if VMS could make this work as well.

You mean what the 'S' key does - see http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/20_Reference/Keyboard_Shortcuts/4_Videos

This is ACTION_ASPECT_RATIO if you want to map it to a button on your remote......

 

[Der_Bub]

Hello,

I have no Idea, how to get the right Aspect (Zoom), if Black Bars are at Top & Button of the Picture.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Zoom 14:9 or Zoom or zoom letterbox is what you use here. (I think it's letterbox) <- This is 4:3 video with a 16by9 image inside it correct?

 

[Owlsroost]

Hello,

I have no Idea, how to get the right Aspect (Zoom), if Black Bars are at Top & Button of the Picture.

Can you enable 'Extensive logging'in the VMS and debug log level in MP, and attach MediaPortal.log please ?

(What you have - as far as I can tell - is 4:3 SD video with hard letterboxed 16:9 content inside it. The default rules should select Zoom14_9 for 4:3 content)

 

[kiwijunglist]

Oh we are actually missing a view mode, we should have 16:9 Letterbox

It seems strange that we have 4:3 Letterbox without 16:9 letterbox.
16:9 Letterbox View Mode is for viewing letter boxed 16by9 inside 4:3 frame on 16:9 TV.

Zoom 14:9 is for viewing 4:3 on 16:9 Displays, but not for above.

 

[Der_Bub]

So, here seems to be another one with 16:9 in 4:3 with a 16:9 Display...

 

[kiwijunglist]

my bad, zoom., is16x9 letter box zoom. so all good.

re; above have you got black bar detection on because it is needed for finding 16by9 inside 4by3.[DOUBLEPOST=1371910716][/DOUBLEPOST]

last line is wrong, should use zoom here instead of zoom 14.9

 

[Owlsroost]

So, here seems to be another one with 16:9 in 4:3 with a 16:9 Display...

As Kiwi suggests, if you change the ViewMode in the "16:9 inside 4:3" rule to be 'Zoom' it should do what you need (in your logs it is set to 'Normal', which won't do anything useful in this situation).

Kiwi - I'll change the default for that rule.

 

[Der_Bub]

After changing to zoom (and reducing Black level treshold to 10), it seems to do now like expected!

THX @ Kiwi & Owlsroost!

One other thing (for better understanding): A 21:9 Movie within 16:9 is zoomed to 14:9 . It's fine for me, but I don't now which rule/function is responsible for it (because I don't have any rules with 14:9)?!