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?
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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.
I've been thinking about this for several days since the release, and I can't seem to find the error in my ways. Brothers, guide me!
Everyone is claiming that the change in resolution is made to accomodate the system buttons. However, if the width (720) is expanded to 768, would that not make the display wider and less widescreen? If the new resolution was made to include the home buttons, I would assume that the height, not width, would be expanded. Where have I gone so wrong?! :crying:
To complicate the matter, there are different types of aspect ratios. There is a pixel aspect ratio, and a display aspect ratio. DAR/PAR=SAR, the storage aspect ratio. You see, the image has is so many pixels across, and the actual screen has so many pixels across, and they don't necessarily match, which is when the actual pixels on the screen aren't square shaped.
Also, the effective aspect ratio on the screen changes, as the home screen, for example, will have the capacitive buttons visible, but during gaming or full screen video playback, the image will truly be full screen, so no buttons visible (or so I've read).
Get lost here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)#Distinctions
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To complicate the matter, there are different types of aspect ratios. There is a pixel aspect ratio, and a display aspect ratio. DAR/PAR=SAR, the storage aspect ratio. You see, the image has is so many pixels across, and the actual screen has so many pixels across, and they don't necessarily match, which is when the actual pixels on the screen aren't square shaped.
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So do we know if this applies to the new Nexus phone, or is it actually just going to use something other than a 16:9 aspect ratio (1:1 pixel ratio)?
Hello,
I want to know if it is possible to optimize the resolution of android games?
I have a galaxy tab android S2 and some games have too low a resolution. It's like 400x300 on a 2K device.
Thx
I believe the reason of that is because this particular games are not optimized for your device. I doubt you can do anything about it.
is there a way to "simulate" another device ?
What I was about to say was that it's not the matter of the device model but it's the matter of the screen size and density. The system performs scaling and resizing of the application to make it work on different screens. However, scaling can result in blurry or pixelated graphics. To avoid this problem, the developer of the app should provide alternative resources (bitmap images, etc.) for different densities (i.e. optimize the application for different screen sizes and densities). If this wasn't done, the application is simply stretched to fit the screen that results in poor graphics quality.
And if i root the tablet to use an app that changes the DPI and resolution of the device.
Do you think the game will also change the resolution to improve it?
I don't know if this will work. Maybe someone else knows.
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?