Video View

[David]

Hi,

The video applet on full screen is not-so-great for a small video on my 17.5
inch wide screen and the maximum display size of the applet is a little small
for not-so-great eye sight.

The video applet display apparently has a limit on the maximum size,
triggered by a stop in vertical expansion.  The horizontal expansion is
unrestricted and creates black space margins.

In head banging it, prior to the last point upgrade, I managed to break the
video out of the applet display into its own window with decorations,
completely resizeable, no controls, still responding to Amarok.

That was perfect except it seemed a result of an error that I have only
reproduced randomly a number of times without learning a thing.

Is this a feature I am missing due to some mixing of versions on my machine? 
If not, maybe this would make a worthwhile feature since it seems already
achievable and is very useful.

Only phonon-xine works for me.  Phonon-gstreamer produces no display,
phonon-vlc turns off the equalizer.

I am running Amarok, backported from testing, on Debian stable. 
Phonon-xine, phonon-vlc & phonon-gstremer from stable.  This is on Gnome
with KDE libraries for Amarok.

All versions I can think of listed below.

Thanks!

-- 
Kind Regards,
Freeman

 amarok:
 2.4.1-1~bpo60+1                               squeeze-backports          
 amarok-common:
 2.4.1-1~bpo60+1                               squeeze-backports          
 amarok-utils:
 2.4.1-1~bpo60+1                               squeeze-backports          
 remuco-amarok:
 0.9.2-1                                       stable                     
 soundkonverter-amarok:
 0.3.8-2                                       oldstable                  

 phonon-backend-xine:
 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1                          stable                     
 phonon-backend-vlc:
 0.2.0-2                                       stable                     
 phonon-backend-gstreamer:
 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1                          stable                     

 kdebase-runtime:
 4:4.4.5-1                                     stable,testing             
 kdebase-runtime-data:
 4:4.4.5-1                                     stable,testing             
 kdelibs-bin:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     
 kdelibs-data:
 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5                             stable                     
 kdelibs4c2a:
 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5                             stable                     
 kdelibs5-data:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     
 kdelibs5-plugins:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     
 kdemultimedia-kio-plugins:
 4:4.4.5-1                                     stable,testing             
 libkde3support4:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     
 libkdecore5:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     
 libkdesu5:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     
 libkdeui5:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     
 libkdewebkit5:
 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze1                            stable                     

 libxine1:
 1.1.19-2                                      stable                     
 libxine1-bin:
 1.1.19-2                                      stable                     
 libxine1-console:
 1.1.19-2                                      stable                     
 libxine1-ffmpeg:
 1.1.19-2                                      stable                     
 libxine1-misc-plugins:
 1.1.19-2                                      stable                     
 libxine1-plugins:
 1.1.19-2                                      stable                     
 libxine1-x:
 1.1.19-2                                      stable                     
 libxinerama1:
 2:1.1-3                                       stable                     
 totem-xine:
 2.30.2-6                                      stable,testing,unstable    
 xine-ui:
 0.99.6-1                                      stable,testing,unstable    

 gir1.0-gstreamer-0.10:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer-tools:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-alsa:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-esd:
 0.10.24-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:
 0.10.10-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3:
 0.10.14.debian-1                              stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-lame:
 0.10.17-0.0                                   stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-nice:
 0.0.12-1                                      stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-packagekit:
 0.6.14-1                                      testing                    
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:
 0.10.19-2+b2                                  stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-gl:
 0.10.2-1                                      experimental               
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
 0.10.24-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad:
 0.10.20-0.1                                   stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:
 0.10.15-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:
 0.10.24-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-sdl:
 0.10.19-2+b2                                  stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-tools:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-x:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 gstreamer0.10-x264:
 0.10.17-0.0                                   stable                     
 libcanberra-gstreamer:
 0.24-1                                        stable,testing,unstable    
 libgstreamer-interfaces-perl:
 0.06-1                                        stable                     
 libgstreamer-perl:
 0.15-2                                        stable                     
 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:
 0.10.30-1                                     stable                     
 libgstreamer-plugins-gl0.10-0:
 0.10.2-1                                      experimental               
 libgstreamer0.10-0:
 0.10.34-1                                     testing,unstable           

 vlc:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-data:
 1.1.9-1                                       testing,unstable           
 vlc-dbg:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-nox:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-plugin-fluidsynth:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-plugin-jack:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-plugin-notify:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-plugin-pulse:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-plugin-svg:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-plugin-svgalib:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 vlc-plugin-zvbi:
 1.1.3-1squeeze5                               proposed-updates           
 libvlc5:
 1.1.9-1+b1                                    testing,unstable           
 libvlccore4:
 1.1.9-1+b1                                    testing,unstable