Gray letterboxing option

[anonymous]

I hate watching programs in the wrong aspect ratio or parts cut off in a zoom mode, but I didn't want to damage my RP set with the black pillarboxes currently provided with Aspect Override turned off. Here is a patch that adds a Gray Pillarboxes option to the Aspect Override menu option. It should perform identical to the Off setting, just with the pillarboxes gray instead of black.

[danielk]

This is a good idea, but I don't like putting the menu and especially as part of aspect override. I'll look at this after the next release.

[Juppers]

I didn't like it hooked to the aspect override either after I thought about it some more. Now it is a seperate setting under TV Settings, Playback. The menu part you still won't like, but the second patch does require a field in settings named GrayPillars, 0 for off, 1 for on, so it can be toggled without having to recompile.

I tried to replace the first patch, but was told no. If you could please remove that one for me that would be appreciated.

[danielk]

Patch to allow setting the color for mythtv's letterboxing.

[danielk]

I created a new patch based on this concept that allows adding more colour options than just grey. As with Juppers' patch, so far this only works for some X11 based video rendering methods.

[Juppers]

Updated for latest SVN.

[danielk]

(In [14955]) Fixes #3797. Adds color control for letterboxing color used by MythTV, currently the options are gray0 (i.e. black) and gray25. The intent is to allow plasma display owner to even out burn-in by selecting a gray borders rather than the default black ones.

[skamithi]

(In [15452]) Refs #2287 Refs #3797. add gray letterboxing support for opengl renderer.