Roku Developer Program

[greubel]

If you have movies with a smaller size than the screen, the movies are stretched out to fill the screen. This can cause them to become very pixellated.
Using SetDestinationRect() with the roVideoPlayer to the actual size of the movie works on all the Roku boxes except the Roku2.

Is there another way to STOP the scaling, that will work on all the boxes ?

[destruk]

One surefire way would be to re-encode the video with a static border around it to fill the dead space.

[greubel]

My application has to play UNKNOWN videos from the user's hard drive.
So I am unable to re-encode the videos.
But I can detect the video's properties for width, height and duration.

[renojim]

Do you mean SetDestinationRect() with the roVideoScreen doesn't work on Roku 2s? I'm pretty sure SetDestinationRect() works with roVideoPlayer. I pointed out the SetDestinationRect/roVideoScreen bug long ago, but it's clearly not going to be fixed.

-JT

[greubel]

Well, it doesn't work with the roVideoPlayer on Roku2 either !

[TheEndless]

"greubel" wrote:
Well, it doesn't work with the roVideoPlayer on Roku2 either !

It definitely works with roVideoPlayer. See the customvideoplayer SDK example as proof.
It's possible that it's one of those settings that only works if it's set before one or more of the other settings.