[Ekiga-list] Fullscreen

[yannick]

Hi,

it will be fixed in the new implementation of 3.00 which has completely
different fullscreen support (DirectX and XVideo).

You can give it a try:
http://snapshots.voxgratia.org/
(this is development version!)

Regards,
Yannick


Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 09:14 +0100, philippe Laliberte a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I do have a wide-screen and I definitively do not have the proportions
> strongly changed in fullscreen mode. Sadly I can not take a screenshot
> of it. 
> 
> I am in 1280 x 768, on an ATI Radeon card. Maybe the stretch is less
> marked because I have a smaller screen?
> 
> What I get is something like this:
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> |	|			|	|
> |	|			|	|
> |	|			|	|
> |	------------------------|-------|
> |				|	|
> -----------------------------------------
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Christopher L Tubbs II wrote: 
> > The distortion I'm talking about is when the image is stretched across
> > the entire widescreen. I don't get this with other software that
> > understands widescreen, but I do with Ekiga. It was my understanding
> > that this was because Ekiga takes the image from the stream and just
> > stretches it for fullscreen mode. Perhaps it works differently?
> > 
> > If you're not getting a distorted (stretched image), I must ask what
> > your fullscreen dimensions are?
> > 
> > gspca drivers ONLY work with v4l, not v4l2, AFAIK. But this shouldn't
> > make a difference, b/c Ekiga handles both, and from what I understand,
> > the system calls are different, but the image quality should be the same
> > with v4l or v4l2.
> > 
> > As for the resolution issue you mentioned, Ekiga version 2 doesn't
> > support high resolutions, even though your camera does, so that might
> > have a lot to do with your fullscreen quality. I recently asked about
> > different resolution support and was told that version 3 will include
> > support for higher resolutions.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > Philippe Laliberte wrote:
> >   
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Well I do not get a distorted image with gspca . I tried it with both an
> > > old Logictec Express and a Pixart. That is with v4l not v4l2. The
> > > resolution is pretty bad with both, but I am trying to understand why.
> > > Might be simply that they are piece of junk. I found one in the trash,
> > > the other paid 12£ for it.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:0928 Logitech, Inc. Quickcam Express
> > > Bus 003 Device 003: ID 093a:2468 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Easy Snap Snake
> > > Eye WebCam
> > > 
> > > P.S. Chris, you can make your signature as an attachment, it is more
> > > convivial for those that do not have a GPG/PGP plugin. Alternatively you
> > > can get for free a formal Internet personal certificate. It is accepted
> > > by most email browsers, which is better because they can encrypt back
> > > easily any answer they might have.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:
> > > My webcam works in full screen mode: Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX
> > > (using gspca driver, although it should be noted that until the gspca
> > > driver is patched, or until Ekiga supports more resolutions, this camera
> > > will crop the image instead of scale it).
> > > 
> > > However, a separate issue I've noticed with fullscreen is that Ekiga
> > > scales the video to match the dimensions of the screen. This is
> > > problematic for widescreen displays because it stretches the picture,
> > > distorting the image. My suggestion is that the scaling should happen to
> > > the largest possible image size that maintains the same image ratio, and
> > > should fill in the leftover with black space (this is how most video
> > > programs nowadays handle widescreen displays).
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > RazaMetaL | Only The Good Die Young wrote:
> > >   
> > >     
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > What model of webcams are supporting the fullscreen view?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I've one logitech quickcam pro 4000 that can not use the fullscreen
> > > > > > view. I'm using the pwc module for this webcam.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >     
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