Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

[Crigou]

Hi,
maybe you know the divx webplayer. It has a feature that makes the whole screen around the video black - so watching films, in there original size, that is not fullscreen, is more acceptable.
Does vlc als has a feature like this? Or is there some addon/plugin/whatever to implement this?

Thank you

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

No.

[Crigou]

Hmmm - that's kinda bad =)
Maybe should be developed for vlc...

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Do it

[Shakama]

thats the same thing i want and i created a thread about it. why not do it, sounds like a neat idea and i want it really bad.

[VLC_help]

Most devs don't do requests that people want. They do what they need/want (or their employer wants). And no one is forced to do anything. So popularity vote doesn't mean anything.

This should be quite easy to implement. Do black borders filter (should be easy) and specialize case where you add black borders so that the movie is on center and darkness fills the rest of current monitor resolution.

[Shakama]

hey i love VLC, and as long as the player remains good then i dont care.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Will be doable in 1.0.

[jeetspam]

you should check out the divx web player developer forums for DivX. their folks are pretty good about listening to new ideas.

http://labs.divx.com/forum