https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501054
--- Comment #2 from John <ilikef...@waterisgone.com> --- (In reply to george fb from comment #1) > (In reply to John from comment #0) > >Strangely and very annoying some assholes directors like Zack Snyder are > >trying to do the same now > > I couldn't care less. Don't use bug reports for your rants, state the > feature you want and leave it at that. > > Also you can use custom commands to change aspect ratio. It's your point of view that this is a rant, mine it isn't. I'm used to provide proper feedback to my bug reports with as much information as possible. Which means I need to explain why I want something. In this case I want to be able to fix the aspect ratio because it bothers me. And it bothers me even more because it was decided to be broken at the source for something as stupid as "director's vision" or how he calls it. It doesn't bother me as much of old movies because it was for technical reasons, like it was the frame rate. But now some directors like to screw with us with weird aspect ratios or even black and white movies. Like having to live with the 100 years old 24 frame rate was not enough. What I'm trying to say is that from all the things that bother me and unfortunately they were broken at the source: -24 FPS -Black and white image -Non-16:9 aspect ratio The one that is easiest to fix is the aspect ratio and for this I opened the bug report. The missing information is lost forever, like it is by using a 24 FPS instead of a 60 FPS (which only 1 movie does), but at least stretching the image to cover the whole screen and not have black bars like watching a a video recorded by a mobile phone in that crappy vertical position. And yes my words look like a rant, but I think they reflect perfectly how annoyed I am about this videos being so hard to watch and on top of that not having any help by the video player to fix them. There's isn't also any other way on this bug tracker to set how annoyed you are by a problem so you have to do it in words, which I think I did and I can stop now. As for using custom commands to change aspect ratio... How am I supposed to know which are those? Do I need to scour the internet again and waste half a day until I find and try each of them to see if they work? And even if I'm lucky to find such commands, why should I waste my time to save them somewhere where I will find them again in the future and then to add them after each install / reinstall of the OS on my computers, my family computers and then on my friends computers? Between you wasting your time implementing this feature once in the player and me wasting it multiple times, I think I want you or other developer to do it, as bad as that sounds. The whole reason I'm writing these bug reports here is that I want to problems are fixed at the core so I don't have to fix them where they don't stick and because of that I have to repeat the fix for hundreds of times over the years. And that's just me, I bet other users of the same player also have or will have the same problem that they want to fix. With the thousands of old movies and tv shows that are in the 4:3 aspect ratio and a few new Hollowood blockbuster movies where some directs want to screw with the aspect ratio for "artistic vision", I thing the ability to change the aspect ratio is a core feature that every player should have. Besides the Windows-only MPC-HC that has multiple ways of stretching the video IIRC and the cross-platform VLC that has one way to multiple aspect ratios, Kodi media center also has it and IIRC, it can do also non-linear stretching, which means that it will try to stretch more the sides than the center of the image, which might be better, but I haven't tried it. So in case you or other developer ever decide to fix the problem, if would be great to have a non-linear stretching option too in addition to the one that stretches everything or if both are not possible or too hard to implement taking too much time, then the non-linear stretching type as that one might be better. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
