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Full Screen Issues / HTPC

Kimper - 7-18-2004 at 05:47 PM

EJukebox appears to be an excellent choice for the thousands of avid HTPC (Home Theatre PC) users out there.

However, I (and many others) will need a windowed Full Screen mode. Most HTPC's that operate on HDTV's require extremely specific resolutions, refresh, scan rates. These can only be achieved with specific graphic cards using a program called Powerstrip. When EJukebox goes into full screen mode and tries to send its own resolutions and such, HDTV's simply turn off the signal.
The easiest solution I think is to allow window resizing so that the windowed mode can be stretched to accomodate the entire screen.

Can the skin editor change the window sizes??

Does anyone else have a work-around for HDTV displays?

There is a huge marketing opprotunity for this product to the HTPC community (see AVSforum.com). Currently our choices of music front ends are not that great.

Pirk - 7-18-2004 at 07:49 PM

As i plan to possibly buy a LCD monitor i'm also interested by your issue Kimper...

That would be great to have something better than 2 vertical black bars when in 1280x1024 for example... I suppose that is the case currently when in full screen mode, no?

Is there someone who is experienced with resolutions superior to 1024x768 on a LCD screen? What it occur if you run eJukebox on such screens? That looks good or bad? Maybe a few screenshoots...

Thanks!

Kimper - 7-19-2004 at 02:59 AM

LCD will probably display fine.

HDTV's are another story.

Really all that is needed is the ability to resize the windows when in non-full-screen mode, and have that window size preserved on shutdow/startup.

Get that ability in 4.0 and I will buy this product.

Pirk - 7-19-2004 at 08:48 AM

Nobody have a LCD monitor, in the eJukebox world??
Or even a laptop in 1400x1050, for example? I mean something superior to 1024x768!

steve_f - 7-19-2004 at 11:51 AM

Pirk,
He's talking about a television not a LCD panel. Televisions, HDTV or not, operate at different resolutions and refresh rates than (computer) LCD panels.

normal TV 4:3 is something like 480X440 (NTSC) .... HDTV is 1080i and/or 720p normally.

basically, that's why it is a lot easier to get to get a television picture displayed on a computer screen than a computer output to display on a television, which is what Kimper wants.

Pirk - 7-19-2004 at 12:08 PM

OK steve_f, you are right, it's not the same thing...
So i should create a new topic for LCD panels, or else maybe to buy a HDTV!!

Thanks.

EDIT:
The new topic for LCD panels is here: http://www.audiosoft.net/forums/viewthread.php?tid=939

rlailey - 8-6-2004 at 12:23 PM

I too have an HTPC running widescreen 16:9 using PowerStrip to create a resolution of 1184x666. This resolution appears to be unavailable to eJukebox when in Full Screen mode and all I get is a black screen (XP Media Center Edition 2004).

Does anybody know a fix for this so I can have eJukebox run Full Screen at the current resolution (1184x666) ?

Kimper - 8-8-2004 at 06:25 PM

Ok here is the answer from Audiosoft via a PM:

Quote:

We are currently working on adding full width eJukebox resizing for eJukebox v4.0 and a new Maximize - and Simple "Full Screen mode" button that will just make eJukebox go fullscreen w/out changing the screen resolution. Fullscreen mode would hide the Windows Taskbar and Maximize would keep the taskbar visible.

Great work Audiosoft!!

Pirk - 8-8-2004 at 07:53 PM

Very interesting report Kimper!

Thanks.

junk - 8-9-2004 at 06:13 AM

yes, this is great news indeed.