[maemo-developers] Howto configure borderless 4:3 tv-out on n900?

[From: Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

there seems to be an API to change the behaviour of the TV output on the n900. At least the media player uses it to e.g. display things with a different layout on the internal screen and the tv-out.

I am asking this because i think it's a great thing to add to all those 640x480 (4:3) programs and especially emulators. The problem these have is that the have a black border left and right to accomodate for the 800x480 main screen and on tv-out they get another top and bottom border to display the entire internal display contents on the tv-out. The result is a 4:3 image on the 4:3 tv-out with black borders on all four sides and with pixels being lost. This isn't useful at all.

I would be really cool if these applications could just request the tv.out to zoom/crop the 4:3 tv-output. That way most emulated games would run full screen and without any pixel loss.

How can this be achieved?

Till