Adding Cinemascope View-Mode

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Hello together,



i’ve been digging and poking around Plex since a couple of days. I’d like to do a constant vertical stretch of all video material.



I’ve added a new Constant to Settings.h:



#define VIEW_MODE_NORMAL 0

…

#define VIEW_MODE_CINEMASCOPE 6

#define VIEW_MODE_CUSTOM 7



And added a new else if to LinuxRendererGL.cpp with the same Name. It alters:



*g_stSettings.m_fZoomAmount

and

g_stSettings.m_fPixelRatio



What I’d like to achieve is:

**

If the desired View Mode is VIEW_MODE_CINEMASCOPE, do

set the image height to fScreenHeight

set the image width to fScreenHeightSource-Ratio (dunno which variable it is)



**

I tried setting random values first, but my settings are not applied to the picture.



I also added the GUI-Stuff in GUIDialogVideoSettings:

  • const int entries = {630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 40300 };

    AddSpin(VIDEO_SETTINGS_VIEW_MODE, 629, &g_stSettings.m_currentVideoSettings.m_ViewMode, 8, entries);

    *

    and added my 40300 to strings.xml (asked elan if this range is okay, so no prob there I hope).





    Could you please give me a hint, where else to look and what else to do to get my settings applied? I’d say it’s some minor thing (stupid me then), or I’m not seeing a framework that has to be altered too.



    Thank you in advance :slight_smile:



    Greets
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Solved.

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Can you please post exactly what files and what the final resolution was? I also have Scope and would love this to work.



Thanks.


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These are changes to the Plex source code. To get this working, you'll need to be able to build your own version of Plex first.
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I’m sorry to reply this slow.



I added the support to my own fork, as Elan suggested. Then I issued a pull request and had mail contact with him (he has been very patient) and explained, why this view mode would be nice to have. But still, it’s not in 0.7.14 :frowning:



I could post my build here if you want to try and “debug” it, BUT: It’s really that kind of small change that I til now didn’t think it’ll need a build :slight_smile:



EDIT: Currently I’m trying to get sinc and lanczos scaling back in (just for fun though). Bet it’ll make a difference for anamorphic setups.



Greets

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I had two different methods of adding this view-mode. I now issued a pull request for the method where it replaced the 4:3 Stretch view mode which should be less hassle for Elan.

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Thanks for your patience, we’ll get the feature in, been trying to hard to stabilize :slight_smile:

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That’ll rock, elan!



My Scope setup is nearly finished and what cool would it be to simply download Plex and have it working out of the box :slight_smile:



Greets

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