How do I play Videos Full Screen ?
 

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you could give media box or kmplayer a try
or try a video with the n900s resolution

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Yeah that's really annoying. I started using VLC and everything's working fine now.

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Can you please tell me what is it ? and How can I get it ? Using VLC does it play videos full screen without stretching the image artifically and forcibly and distorting the image ?

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Yes it will zoom in and won't stretch anything.
Here's the thread for the player : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...&highlight=vlc
You need to read a bit to get it to work :p

This should help you : http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=312
and
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=258

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which means it will not make the video look forcibly stretched and horrible in apperance. If you know what I mean. How those video look when you strecth them forcibly...

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Yes, VLC has the option of zooming in to full height while keeping the aspect ratio (possibly cutting off parts of the left and right side of the image), but also lots of other options.

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IIRC kmplayer also can zoom video. It´s a bit funny thought, you will lose information if you zoom video, but users who do not understand what is happening will be happy because of "full screen".

Still this is utterly user end failure :| You have to at least have some knowledge about aspect ration and resolution before you can say anything about full-screen and how stuff works. So to OP please learn at least basics of these things before posting this kind of posts.

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Of course there is also option TO force movie to resolution of N900 but then again happens same thing what currently some widescreen users are get used to. On widescreen television when forced aspect ration is used people tend to be too slender or fat and that at least makes my head explode :| "look it´s full screen and Angelie Jolies boobs are even bigger...whoppidoo". BANG - headshot...

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The black bars are because your video is probably 16:9 and the N900's screen is 5:3. If you play video that is the same shape as the screen, it will not have the black bars (for example, the included demo videos that came on the phone).

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I'm a bit confused. Why do you want the video to fill the full screen?

When viewing a movie on an old-style 4:3 TV, there was two options.

1) The TV only shows the middle part of the movie. Sometimes cutting off a large part of the image to the left. Sometimes to the right. Showing just a part of the full image frame is called P&S - Pan and Scan.

2) The TV displays the full movie image, but must instead add black bars at top and bottom. This is called letter-box.

3) Some movies are shot on a 4x3 film but the camera has etched markings for the wider/lower cinema format. So all main action are within the cinema format while the film stores extra information at top/bottom that will not be visible at the cinema. Such film can be displayed on an old-style TV either using the full 4x3 film frame, or by letterboxing the part shown on cinema.

Anyway - when you download photos or movies on the net, they have different height/width formats depending on used camera or camera setting or their intended usage.

The majority of users wants a full-screen display to show all image information, which means that a mismatch in height/width proportions between screen and film/photo requires the display to have black bars either at top/bottom or left/right side.

Uniform zooming results in some part of the image not being visible. This can be look very good if a creative person have manually directed how to zoom - as in the pan-scan movies. Just have a media player application show the center part of the movie can give horrible results. A movie can have two people talking to each other and the player program only shows two noses at tle left and right side of the display.

Nonuniform scaling "fit-to-display" is not so fun either. Depending on the stretch direction, people will either be displayed as very fat or very skinny - unless they go to bed in which case the fat guy becomes tall and skinny and the skinny one becomes short and fat...

So once more - exactly why do you want your N900 to fill the full display when having a movie that has different height/width proportions than the phone display?

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I find black bars on the left and right of the screen far more annoying than a stretched image. In fact I can't even bear to watch anything that has black bars on the sides. Black bars on top and bottom I don't mind. I think it is because that is how basically all dvd and hi def movies I have seen are (aint it nice if hollywood that when all tv manufacturers switched to wide screen they decided to only film in ultra wide screen so you still get black bars).

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4:3 stretched to 16:9 is much worse than pillarbox in my opinion :) I say maintain OAR wherever the black bars end up...

Most restaurants & bars who have a nice HDTV and won't pay for HD service, and have the 4:3 picture stretched just makes me shake my head and think of them as unsophisticated... it makes me want to program my N900 for their TV and change the format for them so that it looks correct :D

And those Cable networks who have "HD" channels where they pre-stretch 4:3 content, removing my ability to display it properly, and especially the ones who use that weirdo progressive stretching where the sides are stretched more than the middle (when the camera pans, it makes you feel sick), those people have a special place in hell :)

While I'm ranting, the HD channels that play "fake widescreen" non-HD content which has black bars on top and bottom, and also on the sides, that's just ridiculous. It makes me wonder if these people even watch the channels they broadcast.

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A stretched image would make everything look fat, no good for watching pr0n :D

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Just in case nobody has mentioned, the SiB can play video in fullscreen by pressing f, as it's actually a frontend of mplayer. Therefore, you must select mplayer as default player in SiB to use the hotkeys in mplayer.

Also, in case you don't know, you can even do something else with your N900 while it's playing video fullscreen on TV. That's tip #44 of the N900: Useful Tips (a summary).

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Which is ?

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What is SiB ?

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Just install kmplayer from extras repo and zoom/fit to screen video with buttons on right side. You can install it from application manager on your n900.

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And this will forcibly stretch(Zoom) as you say the Video which will make the image look distorted for e.g- people looking fat, stretched screen etc ? So does it look natural ?

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800x480 .

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When zooming aspect ratio stays correct but you loose "information" because, well some of picture gets outside of screen. But you can use stretch (too thin or fat) if it doesn´t bother you. Just test application and see it yourself if it fits your needs.

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800x480, aspect ratio 5:3 (1.67:1)

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Which player is better to watch movies ? SiB or VLC ?
@etuoyo - Did you manage to get your problem sorted ? - the black bars at the sides of the movie