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I would like to see somthing like what powerdvd 9 now has called TrueTheater™ Stretch

TrueTheater™ Stretch

Nowadays often video sources don't match the displays they are being viewed on. With TrueTheater™ Stretch technology, you can display aspect ratios 16:9 (widescreen) and 4:3 (letterbox) videos more naturally with preset and customized settings.

http://www.cyberlink.com/products/power ... en_US.html

This is nothing but a pan&scan.

well can you see bout making pan and scan more easy to use for people not so techy

Better option would be Liquid Resize Technology
http://www.prophotoshow.net/blog/2008/0 ... chnolighy/

Better option would be Liquid Resize Technology
http://www.prophotoshow.net/blog/2008/0 ... chnolighy/

that is cool but would that work for video

I also agree this would be a killer feature as there is a lot of people using 16:9 screens to watch materials in 4:3. In many cases, specially when there aren't too many fast moving scenes or panning shots, this stretching strategy works better than the normal stretching.

In fact it was already requested some years ago:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=22390

By the way, apparently the technical name of this trick is Non-linear stretching:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDI ... ar_stretch
http://www.ramsden.info/TW/Topics/Refer ... m#Example7
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/3079 ... ost1895809

It would be extremely useful if implemented.

It would be extremely useful if implemented.

It would be a huge degradation of the movie...

It would be extremely useful if implemented.

It would be a huge degradation of the movie...

I remember this setting being implemented in 16:9 TVs since the glorious times of Sony Trinitron CRT TVs. Some days ago I bought a Toshiba LED HDTV and this feature of non-linear stretching was there under the name of "Super Live". I think it's hard to find a panoramic TV not offering something like that so, in my humble opinion, if that setting has been there all along these years it must make some sense.

As I've already underlined, certain sources with lots of camera movement and panning shots render this setting downright useless, as they make the distortion too noticeable. But on the other side, there are lots of sources where camera is usually more or less still (for instance sit-coms, interviews,...) where non-linear stretching makes a better solution than the regular one. Even I think that perhaps the degree of non-linearity could be made adjustable by a parameter in options.

And my final reason is that, what the hell!!, an extra feature like this wouldn't hurt at all and would be and added value for VLC compared to other players...

Thank you very much for your attention, and specially for the amazing program you offer us.

It would be extremely useful if implemented.

It would be a huge degradation of the movie...

I remember this setting being implemented in 16:9 TVs since the glorious times of Sony Trinitron CRT TVs. Some days ago I bought a Toshiba LED HDTV and this feature of non-linear stretching was there under the name of "Super view". I think it's hard to find a panoramic TV not offering something like that so, in my humble opinion, if that setting has been there all along these years it must make some sense.

As I've already underlined, certain sources with lots of camera movement and panning shots render this setting downright useless, as they make the distortion too noticeable. But on the other side, there are lots of sources where camera is usually more or less still (for instance sit-coms, interviews,...) where non-linear stretching makes a better solution than the regular one. Even I think that perhaps the degree of non-linearity could be made adjustable by a parameter in options.

And my final reason is that, what the hell!!, an extra feature like this wouldn't hurt at all and would be and added value for VLC compared to other players...

Thank you very much for your attention, and specially for the amazing program you offer us.

Well, I won't do it myself (I don't have time), but any patch like this would be very welcome.