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How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dajiangtang - 2013-10-14
If a video is played in full screen mode and the aspect ratio of the video is not 16:9, the rest of the screen (or in other words: the background color) will be black. I want to set this color to middle gray, which is a good background color for plasma TVs. Does anyone know how to do this in Transparency?
Thanks.
RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - ronie - 2013-10-14
i've looked into this before, but couldn't find a way to do it.
most likely, it's just not possible.
RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - ezechiel1917 - 2013-10-14
<blackbarcolour> in advancedsettings.xml will do the job.
RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dajiangtang - 2013-10-15
(2013-10-14, 09:21)ezechiel1917 Wrote: <blackbarcolour> in advancedsettings.xml will do the job.
It works!
Thank you!
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<blackbarcolour>128</blackbarcolour>
</video>
</advancedsettings>RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-01-06
I just tried this solution, but the setting seems to be ignored. Using the latest Raspbmc-Version. Any idea? I'd love to use this for my Plasma-TV.
RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - PatK - 2014-01-06
(2014-01-06, 20:59)dantist Wrote: I just tried this solution, but the setting seems to be ignored. Using the latest Raspbmc-Version. Any idea? I'd love to use this for my Plasma-TV.Is this truly getting ignored? Check the debug.log to see what is going on, and if your advanced settings.xml is being read.
RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-01-07
Yes, the advancedsettings.xml is read since I use it for various stuff which all works fine. Only the bars won't turn grey. Do I need to change something in the video settings menu as well? And does this option work with a RPi anyway?
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<usetimeseeking>true</usetimeseeking>
<timeseekforward>60</timeseekforward>
<timeseekbackward>-10</timeseekbackward>
<timeseekforwardbig>600</timeseekforwardbig>
<timeseekbackwardbig>-180</timeseekbackwardbig>
<blackbarcolour>128</blackbarcolour>
</video>
<audio>
<streamsilence>1</streamsilence>
</audio>
<loglevel>1</loglevel>
<videolibrary>
<dateadded>0</dateadded>
</videolibrary>
</advancedsettings>RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-06-26
Is this maybe dependent on other video settings? I updated to OpenELEC 4.0 recently and it is still not working, and it's the only setting of my config that is ignored.
RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - PatK - 2014-06-26
Could be the video has encoded within black bars to fill the stated aspect. This function within advancedsettings.xml is still working, just checked it out with Gotham 13.1
RE: How to set the background color in the playback screen? - dantist - 2014-06-26
The videos are fine, they are encoded 4:3 and are stretched to full size if this is configured in the 4:3 video settings. So it must be something else..
I really hope to get this feature running because my Plasma TV has quite a sensitive panel. Here's a log of the boot sequence from just now: http://pastebin.com/YLVzEXXU
Thanks a lot