Comments on: zooming in Xine

By: Paulus

Paulus — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:48:16 +0000

If I’m not mistaken about what you’re trying to do, the “e” and “w” keys in mplayer are probably useful to you.

By: kees

kees — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:30:50 +0000

The real goal I have is to do this with a single remote-control button via LIRC. I’m using Xine, MPlayer, and MythTV in full-screen mode on a TV so compiz and non-automate-able command lines aren’t an option. MPlayer’s crop tool cannot be enabled/disabled on the fly, and Xine’s “ZoomIn” (ctrl-z) only operates in 1% increments. I have an “okay” solution for MPlayer that runs “cropdetect” the first time a video is displayed, and the results are stored for the following runs, which get a “crop” commandline. But there are still non-functional corner-cases.

By: pierre

pierre — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:00:26 +0000

“crop” & “expand” options in mplayer package do a rather good job too :)

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:56:29 +0000

If you running compiz you can enable the “zoom” plugin then use ctrl-mousewheel to zoom in and out. Works pretty sweet (and the scaling gets done on the gpu).