Hello, I am using Instagram Stories a lot on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, but with screen ration 21.9:9 they are very "tall" and people on other smartphones don't see my stories correctly. Do you have any idea if is it possible launch Instagram app for example in window with different aspect ration (18:9, which has standard smartphones)? It will be great if there will be an app, which can force (run) specific app in classic aspect ration 18:9.
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Hey guys,
This has probably been asked many times. I've seen the HD2 play movies face to face, is there a program or a format that can be used on the TP2 to utilize the whole screen and not just show a movie in letterbox format?
This "letterbox format" you speak of is a result of the movies aspect ratio not matching that of your phones screen. Getting it to fill the whole screen should be a scaler setting of whatever video player software you are using.
By default most software is set to maintain the correct aspect ratio while keeping the full frame of the video visible. You want the setting that maintains the aspect ratio but zooms in on the video to fill the entire screen. The name of such a setting is variable between different applications; on Media Player Classic in Windows it is called "Touch Window From Outside", on TCPMP it is called "Fill Screen" and in the Zoom section of the options menu. I've never used any HTC video player application so I cannot help on that end.
With todays standards, there are several Aspect Ratios, though the most well known Aspect Ratios are Widescreen/Letter Box [16:9]/[16:10] and Full Screen/Standard [4:3].
If you wish NOT to download/install other apps to watch a movie in simple Full Screen mode, just make sure the video you want to watch in full screen is atleast 4:3 ratio.
One major annoyance of the OnePlus 7 Pro camera app is that it only supports aspect ratios 4:3 (which looks old-fashioned computery), 20:9 (ridiculously wide) and for some reason 1:1 (useless), and no sane aspect ratios like 16:9, or even better, the traditional 3:2.
So I've been looking at alternative camera apps. Many of them do support 16:9, some even 3:2, but I haven't found a single one that allows you to use the wide angle and zoom lenses of the 7 Pro.
Any tips?
Edit: I realize that all aspect ratios other than 4:3 just crop the picture from the sensor, and that I can do so myself afterwards, but I just want to point and click, and not have to worry about getting the subject in the to-be-cropped-part of the picture.
Thanks,
– Michael
I had a problem since I bought my OnePlus 7 Pro phone, the tall screen doesn't go well when recording an Instagram story, cause the viewfinder fill the whole screen (specially when using gesture navigation). This cause a bigger side crop from the original camera sensor, and then another top and bottom crop for the people who watch them. So it ends up in a lost of quality and a really frustrating experience, trying to readjust everytime the videos so people can watch them better and having them saved at a weird resolution instead of the standard 16:9.
So, if anyone knows a fix, or how to force the 16:9 aspect ratio in the whole app or hopefully just in the viewfinder section, similar to this fix I found https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/co...ries/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I would be extremely grateful, thank you so much!
Some fix for the exaggerated lateral margins that it makes in the videos to the screens of YouTube, Netflix, etc.? You can zoom and fill the screen but the video in its original format, has an excessive crop.
In other Xiaomi devices this does not happen.
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Some fix for the exaggerated lateral margins that it makes in the videos to the screens of YouTube, Netflix, etc.? You can zoom and fill the screen but the video in its original format, has an excessive crop.
In other Xiaomi devices this does not happen.
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First of all, I am pretty sure you posted in the wrong category. This should got to Questions & Answers.
Did you ever play GameBoy Color games on the GameBoy Advance?
If yes, you noticed, that all the games had black margins, except you were resizing the image with the L/R button.
The reason for that is that what is being displayed does not match the resolution of the screen. So if your video is 480*240p then it will have margins on a Full HD or 2k display.
Same goes for any device, like your phone. Previous phones did not have margins, because they probably had a screen resolution of precisely 1920x1080p. So most videos will fit perfectly, because that is a very common resolution for videos.
Now the POCO has a higher resolution: 1080 x 2400, which is not perfectly standard. Your video is guaranteed to not have this resolution, as can be seen from the screenshot. So of course there will be black margins. The only way to "remove" the margins would be to resize your video or get an older phone with a resolution of exactly Full HD.
Conclusively, that's not an issue with your phone or whatever. It's an issue regarding different resolutions, which happens to EVERY device on earth that has a display measured in pixels.
Although they are related it's more of the aspect ratio thing than resolution. Common aspect ratio for content on platforms OP has mentioned is 16:9 where our poco has 20:9 screen. 16:9 was the most popular on mobile devices before the "bezel less" era and still is the most popular for TV.
Try to do the pinch outwards gesture to stretch the video to full screen?
Use the Video Toolbox?
have some old games that I have been playing for many years. Some of them are not even available in Play Store anymore.
The issue is that some of these games do not adapt well to widescreen; the top par of the game gets cutoff. One game where this becomes an issue is Angry Birds. Sometimes there are structures that are beyond the screen and it becomes difficult to aim for them without being able to see them.
Is there any way to force specific aspect ratio for certain games/apps? I have a rooted Android phone, so am open to suggestions that require root.
no until android support gpu scaling
In rooted devices there are ways to change resolution and aspect ratio with it, but is there way to open a one centrain app (game) in specyfic aspect ratio ( i mean to simulate screen size with black borders in 4:3) without changing whole device resolution?
Is there any way to put black borders in 4:3 ascpect ratio?