GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 590558
Add automatic zooming for fullscreen mode
Last modified: 2011-04-03 23:48:29 UTC
The feature to zoom in (or out of) a video is mainly useful in fullscreen mode. But how can one use this feature there? I know that I can press Ctrl-Shift-1 (Ctrl-+) to use it, but the average user doesn't use such long key combinations and it's not very discoverable either. And in fullscreen, the key combination is the only way to do it. What I'm getting at is that there should be an easy way to zoom in fullscreen mode.
Created attachment 139753 [details] mockup for fullscreen zoom buttons This is a mockup to solve the problem. It adds two buttons for zooming at the top right, besides the "Leave fullscreen" button. The idea is that it's similar to the window buttons (minimise, maximise, close). It doesn't take too much space and is more discoverable and easy to use. What do you think? I'll come up with a patch when we agree on the way to do it.
You can also use "R" and "T" to zoom in/out. If we're going to add a interface to do zooming, i'd rather we added some automagic zooming, like on the iphone/ipod touch. The button would go through scaling options such as: - original size (well, 100% zoom, no need to offer original size in fullscreen) - clip to widest/tallest See attached screenshot.
Created attachment 142465 [details] iPhone screenshot
How do you detect how wide/tall the real picture is? I'm thinking of videos where there are black borders in the picture itself (DVD or bad encodes for example). Are you thinking of something like mplayer's cropdetect?
I would expect most videos to have borders either on the sides, or at the top/bottom, not both. Using something like cropdetect might be a bit too heavy.
Ah, I see what you mean now. I'll work out a patch for that (when I find the time).
I'm coming back at this and when thinking about this, I don't like that "automagic zooming" won't work for DVDs when you want to have the top and bottom borders removed. Maybe we need to extend the options (that the button would go through) with cropping for the usual DVD aspect ratios? (i.e. what VLC does when you choose Video -> Crop -> 16:10)
Show me DVDs with borders on the top/bottom *and* the sides. I'm pretty certain there's very few of those, and that we'd be able to get them working using the zoom menu items/keyboard shortcuts just fine.
*** Bug 605230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 607613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marking as a dupe of bug 646364, which handles this already. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 646364 ***