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Variably-adjustable zoom wanted for TVs and DVDs.
TVs and DVD players have a preset zoom button
where the picture zoom can be increased by a factor of 2 to 4 (typically). Are there any TVs or DVDs which have an adjustable zoom adjustable manually from 1 to (say) 1.5x. I watch a lot of old movies and the image just sits in the middle of the screen with a large wasted border, and if I zoom to 2 x times I lose some of the image as well. A lesser zoom function would allow me to fit the available area perfectly. Useful too would be a function to stretch the vertical and horizontal by desired amounts depending on the movie. Are there third-party hardware or software devices to handle the task? Please help. |
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Variably-adjustable zoom wanted for TVs and DVDs.
Frank Martin wrote:
TVs and DVD players have a preset zoom button where the picture zoom can be increased by a factor of 2 to 4 (typically). Are there any TVs or DVDs which have an adjustable zoom adjustable manually from 1 to (say) 1.5x. I watch a lot of old movies and the image just sits in the middle of the screen with a large wasted border, and if I zoom to 2 x times I lose some of the image as well. A lesser zoom function would allow me to fit the available area perfectly. Useful too would be a function to stretch the vertical and horizontal by desired amounts depending on the movie. Are there third-party hardware or software devices to handle the task? Please help. You would think so, wouldn't you? Sharing your frustration I wrote a VB6 program which calls the WMP-API and allows the video image to be "zoomed" in increments of +/- 10%. Alternatively, the Multimedia Control included with VB6 allows for dragging the borders of the display window individually, thus enabling me to resize in any way I choose; the WMP-API only supports zooming in aspect ratio. With this program I can play MPEG 1/2/4 and simple VOBs which are not encrypted. I can not play menued DVDs, as the program does not understand IFOs. 4:3 full screen and letterbox can be "zoomed" to fill a 16;9 screen while maintaining aspect. or, using the MMC, the image can be modified without regard to aspect ratio as well as zoomed. I've never installed this program anywhere else nor ever written an installer for it so I'm unsure, all these years later, if it will run on a machine that does not have Visual Studio 6 installed? I use it still for all videos except DVDs, for which I use VLC. I use an old 2gp4 as my video player and a 42" 1080p monitor as its PC screen via an ATI 9250 PCI. I can make copies of the MMC/WMP, and WMP only, source programs available to anyone who'd like to compile them. |
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Variably-adjustable zoom wanted for TVs and DVDs.
"Bill's News" wrote in message ... Frank Martin wrote: TVs and DVD players have a preset zoom button where the picture zoom can be increased by a factor of 2 to 4 (typically). Are there any TVs or DVDs which have an adjustable zoom adjustable manually from 1 to (say) 1.5x. I watch a lot of old movies and the image just sits in the middle of the screen with a large wasted border, and if I zoom to 2 x times I lose some of the image as well. A lesser zoom function would allow me to fit the available area perfectly. Useful too would be a function to stretch the vertical and horizontal by desired amounts depending on the movie. Are there third-party hardware or software devices to handle the task? Please help. You would think so, wouldn't you? Sharing your frustration I wrote a VB6 program which calls the WMP-API and allows the video image to be "zoomed" in increments of +/- 10%. Alternatively, the Multimedia Control included with VB6 allows for dragging the borders of the display window individually, thus enabling me to resize in any way I choose; the WMP-API only supports zooming in aspect ratio. With this program I can play MPEG 1/2/4 and simple VOBs which are not encrypted. I can not play menued DVDs, as the program does not understand IFOs. 4:3 full screen and letterbox can be "zoomed" to fill a 16;9 screen while maintaining aspect. or, using the MMC, the image can be modified without regard to aspect ratio as well as zoomed. I've never installed this program anywhere else nor ever written an installer for it so I'm unsure, all these years later, if it will run on a machine that does not have Visual Studio 6 installed? I use it still for all videos except DVDs, for which I use VLC. I use an old 2gp4 as my video player and a 42" 1080p monitor as its PC screen via an ATI 9250 PCI. I can make copies of the MMC/WMP, and WMP only, source programs available to anyone who'd like to compile them. Thanks for the reply thought I am not so advanced in this sort of thing. I am going to investigate whether I can get a similar effect by running the movies from WindowsMediaCentre on my computer. Regards,Frank |
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