[mythtv-users] Leanfront 0-138 Black Background?

[Paul Gardiner]

On 22 May 2020 20:54:51 BST, Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>On 5/22/20 2:03 PM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 21/05/2020 17:39, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>> On 5/21/20 5:45 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>> On 20/05/2020 21:10, Peter Bennett wrote:> On 5/20/20 3:54 AM, Paul
>
>>>> Gardiner wrote:
>>>> >> If we're doing feature requests: any chance of making 
>>>> configurable the
>>>> >> colour of bars above and below the video? The grey is good for
>my
>>>> >> plasma TV, but I much prefer black. :-)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Loving the way Leanfront is developing.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Cheers,
>>>> >>     Paul.
>>>> >
>>>> > It looks black to me. Do you mean the black bars (letterbox) at 
>>>> top and
>>>> > bottom as in the picture at
>>>> >
>>>> > 
>>>>
>https://www.dropbox.com/s/0po3wa8f44u6mdh/Screenshot_2020-05-20_16-03-56.png?dl=0
>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I'm now seeing grey, although possibly only since fiddling
>with 
>>>> the screen size settings. Perhaps it was black and then I changed 
>>>> something.
>>>>
>>>> P.
>>>
>>> The color seems to be #010001
>>> i.e red and blue value 1 (out of 255), green value 0. Pretty close
>to 
>>> black. I don't know how to change it, although I could investigate 
>>> it. Maybe not worth the trouble.
>>> It may come out different on different android devices if the color 
>>> is "transparent", and showing the background color.
>>
>> Here's a video showing how it looks on my firestick, along with the 
>> results of my fiddling with the stretch and screen size buttons: 
>> http://download.glidos.net/LeanfrontGreyBars.mp4
>>
>> P.
>> _______________________________________________
>I don't know what is going on here. Does it look different with a 
>different player (e.g. mythfrontend or vlc)?

Yes, other players don't show the bars as grey and all widescreen movies show grey when I use Leanfront.