I Just got my Chromecast today but when I play a video from my phone or desktop on hardwire I get flucreen (black bars on the side). I enabled 720p playback on extension, auto resizing with no results. the home screen is not widescreen and the youtube videos even 1080p ones are still in this squished fullscreen. how do I get it to resize?
I just figured it out, on my insignia I need to switch to wide mode. forgot I changed it do to Ouya.
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Why when I connect the TV to 2x OPTIMUS
Pixel stretch
Even when taking pictures in FULL HD
Even in games
In Cell Phones see so beautiful
But not on TV
Apart from two sample movies I got with the device
The phone's resolution is 800x480, your telly's resolution is 1280x720 or 1920x1080.
Not hard to figure it out
Yes but when taking pictures in FULL HD
This basically
1080P?
So ...
Or I copy a tape device in MKV in HD
This should be the quality of HD is not it?
sganach said:
Yes but when taking pictures in FULL HD
This basically
1080P?
So ...
Or I copy a tape device in MKV in HD
This should be the quality of HD is not it?
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*when taking pictures=when i taking video...
Mine doesnt strech on the screen. If the phone is upright it shows the image upright, with big black sidebars(No stretching). When the phone is laying down/playing video the image is not scaled either, and fits the screen quite nicely.
The user interface is upscaled to 1080p, so the menu, items, apps, ... are all upscaled.
Only the video mode (and maybe game mode) is native 1080p.
I've fiddled with my phone on the tv and I see no stretch.
Are you sure that the TV itself doesn't have a picture stretching mode enabled?
Many TVs have them on by default to adapt 4/3 (99% of non cable/satellite transmissions) content to their screen.
Modes are various and go by different names,but these are the usual:
linear stretch, content is stretched over the screen, so it gets "fattened"
zoom, content is cropped to fit aspect ration and then zoomed, this usually gives good results on films because they have upper and lower black bands which gets deleted, and then the rest has the size of the tv and fits all the screen
hybrid stretch, central part of the content remains the same, the content gets stretched the far it is from the center (stretching on the lateral edges, it gives an effect similar to a wide lens)
Hi all,
I could not sleep thinking of using chrooted linux on my 47" 1080p LCD, fine, but we a re limited to the hdmi mirroring, which is 800x480 stretched to fill the screen.
Thinking about the video player, which does proper 1080p output I tried to fool the system somehow with video playing and task switching, menus, back btn presses, and found something:
Using temasek´s kang + ironkrnl #251 32mb hack, qemu lcd density 210
You start playing a video, can be through native video player or mxplayer, HW or SW mode, then you press menu once or twice to show the options, the video freezes for a moment. then you press back twice rapdly, VOILA, you have a working gallery (works until you flip the phone to portrait, this resets the display to normally scaled screen) in 1080p in the lower half of the screen.
If you were using mxplayer, the top half of the screen will have the player controls as they were on the phones screen during video playback. everything is repeated side by side almos three times (I think it´s the difference in resolution being compensated in the framebuffer or some sort of scaling bug).
All in all, does someone have any idea on how to invoke a mirrorless 1080p picture on hdmi? (or mirrored and downscaled/croppped on the phones screen), apparently only gallery is capable of displaying in 1080, any other app works in the phones screen but the image keeps frozen on hdmi with sound ok.
Imagine chrooted linux in 1080 with BT mouse and KB!
Pictures attached:
edit: tried with 1202221503-ETaNa_48 kernel and could not reproduce it, later will try with etana 64 and other ironkrnl
What a great little bug. It would be nice to have it actually run at 1080p for the Android screen and things like the word processor. Would make using the phone as a mini computer so much better.
Great find dude...!!
Sent from my LG-P990
Sould I post this at Development section? Can some mod move this thread to dev? I think it will be more useful there.
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Sould I post this at Development section? Can some mod move this thread to dev? I think it will be more useful there.
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Not development. Moving to general.
I can only say that I wish I had the same amount of spare time as you
I tried the tvout with the offical hmdi adapter but it mirrors the tablet including the system bar, and since the resolution of the tablet is 16:10 and not 16:9 I get two black vertical stripes at both sides.
Is there a way to change this behavior? Like a full 16:9 or a 1080p out?
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I tried the tvout with the offical hmdi adapter but it mirrors the tablet including the system bar, and since the resolution of the tablet is 16:10 and not 16:9 I get two black vertical stripes at both sides.
Is there a way to change this behavior? Like a full 16:9 or a 1080p out?
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You'll need to change the settings on your TV to stretch the picture or zoom it, most TV's have a setting to automatically do this to hide black bars, the only problem is it alters the shapes, people end up with odd shaped heads etc
So basically there is no way to play on a tv a 16:9 fullhd video or a slidewhow without status bar? I mean, is mirroring the only one mode?
You can set this up to hide the status bar, but 16:9 is always going to be an issue as the tablet is not 16:9
Yes, but still tvout is a limited feature since I can't have an extended desktop or i.e. a slideshow played on tv while working on something on the tab...
zooster said:
Yes, but still tvout is a limited feature since I can't have an extended desktop or i.e. a slideshow played on tv while working on something on the tab...
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Hang on......so you want to play a video to the TV in HD widescreen while still doing something on the tablet ?
I'm pretty sure there's no Android devices that do this
A kind of... My first aim is to play a slideshow on a tv in full screen mode, while seeing the slide's tree on the tablet and choosing which one to show in full screen on the tv.
Second aim is to disable tablet video and show only tv. It would be nice to play a 3d game on the tv, but as long as the video is doubled fps are so low that it's unplayable.
FPS won't be doubled as all you're doing is doubling up the video output, not the data going through the GPU, there's plenty of video's on youtube of folks using MHL adapters to connect to a TV to play games
Yes fps won't be halved but, since a tough game is very cpu intensive, doubling the video it lags a lot more the tablet. My tablet is much more laggy even simply swiping on the home screens or app drawer when connected to a tv.
Flash motley kernel and overclock to 1.4
I believe a Nexus Q will let you send video from the tablet to the TV whilst doing other stuff on the tablet, but it costs quite a lot.
Definitely hear some unrealistic multitasking wants. Also, doesn't ICS improve hdmi out options as far as full screen video, not just mirroring?
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The Galaxy note 10.1 has this function in the movieplayer to only show the video while controls are shown on the tablet. This is exactly what you are asking if i understand you correctly.
I'm also looking for more possibilities in this area. Being able to see the picture Gallery while only showing the last picture (or non at the start) would be amazing!
If i find anything i will share it here
Hi to all
I've a galaxy tab 8.9 with ICS (open austria) just installed with odin, I've see a problem with fullscreen video streaming on some websites, like BBC, Discovery, ecc. If I choise the fullscreen mode on a video in a webpage, some browser go stop to load or others that play the video, the size is not fullscreen. In vertical orientation the size of fullscreen video is ok, but when I rotate the tablet on landscape mode the video has a the same small size to vertical but placed on the left bottom of display and not the size of fullscreen.
Anyone has the same problem? is possible to fix it?
Hey!
I recently downloaded a few mkv HDR files to the phone, but when playing the files, it didn't activate the HDR feature (washed out colors and bad contrasts) in VLC or the native Samsung video app. How come and how can I watch HDR content? (It does work on YouTube HDR videos...)
Thanks!
HDR content is HIT AND MISS. Some will look fine after adjusting the brightness and contrast, some devices require Auto Brightness and Iris to be turned off. and sometimes a codec can fix the problem....
Have you tried using KODI and adjusting the hardware and software codec settings?
But honestly, HDR on a 6 inch screen isn't doing you any good. 1080p Will consume far less data and will look the same on that tiny screen. Unless you're using HDMI out to a screen over 50 inches, i don't see the need...
HDR has nothing to do with the resolution (and the fact that you should be watching it on big screens). HDR is about dynamic range and the color range which is perfect to watch on a high-end screen of a premium smartphone display like Galaxy S10.