[mythtv] [PATCH] Specify aspect ratio cycle

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 06:48:03AM +0200, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 06:27, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > It's an extra setting with a complicated setup that duplicates existing
> > functionality.  It doesn't need to exist.  Nothing that anyone's said has
> > been anything more than "I'm too lazy to press a button 2 extra times",
> > so...
> >
> > I strongly feel that there are way too many useless (and confusing)
> > settings as is, and I don't really want to add another one.
> 
> And would not a much better approach be to detect the black bars around an 
> image and automatically switch aspect/zoom setting, that way you won't touch 
> this button at all :)

That would be ideal. I think this is a good interim step though.
Even in that case it might not be obvious which mode to use when. I
don't know when the 16:9 stretch mode would ever be needed, for example
- AFAICT it's only needed to work around flawed transmission formats.

In reply to Isaac's comment I would say that:
1. The setup is a bit complicated but it's not unprecedented and an
empty string is just fine for a default (no change from the current
behaviour); it could be improved if suitable widgets exist, though it's
not trivial;

2. It's about laziness as well as about ease of use;
3. I don't see how it duplicates existing functionality.

Hamish

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