Anyone having aspect ratio issues with the new chromecast? I watch twitch.tv every once in awhile and I notice that the aspect ratio is off when casting to the new chromecast. Is this something that's always an issue?
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Hey does anybody know how to change the aspect ratio on videos streamed through AllShare? When ever I play a extra widescreen movie, it stretches it out and makes it 16x9. Any way to change this? Thanks.
You can't. Lame, huh? I worked around this by changing the aspect ratio on the TV.
Edit: You guys are talking about the other way round, huh? Phone to TV rather than server to phone. If so, NM, lol.
Does Allshare use the standard Video UI? I was all sorts of frustrated with stretching on 4:3 videos, and then I realized that little square button on the right changes it between stretch, shrink to fit, and original. I haven't messed with Allshare much (our wifi is not very good =/) so I dunno if it uses the regular video player.
I was actually talking about watching on the phone from a server. It appears to use the standard video player but it doesn't have that button to change the aspect ratio. It has a button that looks like it but it is the stop button.
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Is there still no aspect ratio adjustment solution for playing movies through Allshare (on the phone)?
So lame that allshare doesn't allow you to change the player in order to get subtitles
using vlc streaming to get movies from my phone, working really well. just fire up vlc on your pc and change a couple settings.
my only issue is the videos are squeezed and aspect ratio is stretched vertical. the aspect ratio no matter what the input video always outputs a stream that is tall and skinny. i have tried changing the aspect on every vlc setting on phone with no luck. also tried using mp4 for the codec instead of h264, still the same issues with incorrect aspect ratio. looks like a 16:9 got smushed into a 4x3 or worse.
Apart from that, the player works very well no dropped frames, any format that your pc vlc can play works in the phone now since the pc converts on the fly. my quad core i7 760 uses about 15% processor to stream live.
http://traveldevel.com/vlc-stream-convert/setup
Thanks for the help
I'm looking for an app that can playback the videos I used to convert to use in windows mobile coreplayer. I'm running an htc hd2 which has a display resolution of 800x480 and an aspect ratio of 5:3. I convert all my movies to pan and scan to 5:3 aspect ratio. What that does is, It allows the video to automatically fill the entire screen at 1:1 pixel perfect quality depending on the source resolution. So i tried the same method with Android 2.3.3 with my htc hd2 using VitalPlayer, which I feel is the best video I've been able to find. I hate having an audio app "PowerAMP" and a seperate extremely limited Video Player. So my problem is when i playback a 5:3 aspect ratio pan and scan 800x480 video on any player in android, it displays everything stretched vertically but it fills the screen. Coreplayer displayed it flawlessly as I had intended. I use Xilisoft Video Converter HD. I use .mp4 avc format with cuda support. This method worked great on Coreplayer. What should I do? Actually I remember I had to set the aspect ratio on coreplayer to Square to display it correctly. Thanks.
Question - What is a good video player that can playback all the formats vitalplayer or even coreplayer does preferably and have some options to change/ adjust the aspect ratio and zoom and more?
Actually I re did it at 5:3 and now it displays perfectly. lol. my bad. I had my aspect ratios messed up, now wonder. User error all along.
1chris89 said:
Actually I re did it at 5:3 and now it displays perfectly. lol. my bad. I had my aspect ratios messed up, now wonder. User error all along.
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Which one is it ?
Im looking for Players for Android, like -
VIDEO-
CorePlayer
TCMP player
AUDIO-
S2P v.1.4
MortPlayer 3.31
the best part about these players is it starts from exactly the place you stop it
Please Help
I have two identical videos, both encoded using Handbrake, one an MP4 and one an MKV.
Here's the dilemma.
The MKV is a better container, plays well and in correct ratio on the PC in DivX Player but the aspect ratio is wrong on the Galaxy Tab and the three options cycling through the display aspects, stretch, fill, zoom etc, don't give me the correct ratio.
The MP4 however does play on the Tab correctly, and will play in DivX and QuickTime but I need to manually change the aspect ratio. Meh.
The stored display ratios look correct in the MKV header.
Any other thoughts?
Ta
Simon
Anyone got anything yet?
Anyone also noted that videos play way too dark on the Tab?
I hooked up my TP to my old CRT TV (please don't laugh at me) through a small digital to analog converter. Audio and video come through fine, except the video is "squished" thinner than it should be. The converter and TV don't seem to have options for changing the aspect ratio, so the responsibility falls on my TP. Problem is, I can't find info about changing aspect ratios anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks!
Hanshananigan said:
I hooked up my TP to my old CRT TV (please don't laugh at me) through a small digital to analog converter. Audio and video come through fine, except the video is "squished" thinner than it should be. The converter and TV don't seem to have options for changing the aspect ratio, so the responsibility falls on my TP. Problem is, I can't find info about changing aspect ratios anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Get Dice player, it has options for size, rotation and so on, but that is for local videos and I am not sure it will do anything for web video.
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Get Dice player, it has options for size, rotation and so on, but that is for local videos and I am not sure it will do anything for web video.
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Thanks Mosh! I'll give it a try.
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Get Dice player, it has options for size, rotation and so on, but that is for local videos and I am not sure it will do anything for web video.
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Come to think of it, I mostly run the Netflix app, so yeah, I would need to somehow change the aspect ratio for the HDMI video output (or on the Netflix app, which doesn't seem to have that option).
Anyone else have ideas?