Re: fullscreen video with mencoder
On 05/01/2011 01:34 AM, Doug wrote:
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Maybe I missed something along the way, but I think there is a more-or-
less standard that just chops the sides off wide-screen pictures and
fills the
screen with the center 4x3 section of picture.
That's called pan-and-scan, and you must manually specify when
transcoding the video that you want to chop off the edges.
Unless you have wide-screen
text or a spreadsheet, this seems to work fine for most other purposes.
(I'm still using 4/3 displays on Linux and Windows and I have no
intention of
changing until a monitor burns out. I would lose too much horizontal
surface
[i.e., desk space] if I had a 16/9 screen of the same height as I have
now--
which I need for comfortable reading and writing of text.) Oh--I don't play
shoot-em-ups.
newegg sells some 4:3 LCDs in a range of prices. I bought two Hanns-G
19" 4:3 monitors and am nothing but pleased with them.
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corrupt."
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