Video View

[Kevin Funk]

Thursday 09 June 2011, David <hewho7 at gmail.com>:
> 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!

Hey,

We're aware that the Video applet (in its current state) has various glitches. 
We're trying to sort them out for the next release if possible.

Short answer, I know ;)

Greets

-- 
Kevin Funk