Stretched landscape videos when viewing vertically - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Viewing a video that was recorded in landscape while holding the phone vertically completely stretches the video to fit the screen instead of just displaying a small landscape video in the middle of the screen.
Any idea why it's doing this?

Its called stretch to fit. Tap bottom left corner and you can change the viewing mode.

I pretty much feel like a ass right now. Smh. Thanks

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playing videos using WM2003

is there a way where i can convert videos that will fill up the screen in full screen mode? I converted some video files to WMV but when it's in full screen mode, it doesnt cover up the whole screen. only about 3/4 of the screen is covered and centered in the middle.
well unless the video is widescreen and you rotate it
then it can never fit the whole screen unless it have the stretch the video leaving the people pretty tall and thin
to convert it you will prob need a video tool on your pc

[Q] Fitting my wallpaper

Hi there!
One of my "problems" I have with the S2 is that i can't seem to be able to properly fit a picture on my screen.
Whenever i set a picture as wallpaper it will be zoomed in.
Is there a way i can fit a picture in its original size (so the whole picture can be seen) on the screen?
Many thanks,
Peter
If you are trying to set a scrollable wallpaper on a single portrait screen then it's not possible, but otherwise you have to click on the portrait icon, then drag the orange lines to the furthest corner of the picture, then set it.
There it goes "wrong", whenever i do that in portrait mode, and I select the part i want and set it as wallpaper... the result will be that it is zoomed in.
For example as i drag the orange lines around my girlfriend and I set it... it will only show me the chest, stomach and a part of the legs instead of the whole body.
PeterK1990 said:
There it goes "wrong", whenever i do that in portrait mode, and I select the part i want and set it as wallpaper... the result will be that it is zoomed in.
For example as i drag the orange lines around my girlfriend and I set it... it will only show me the chest, stomach and a part of the legs instead of the whole body.
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You need 480 x 800 resolution photos/wallpapers to fit in portrait mode, any other resolution will slightly distort or won't fit on the screen.
I always crop my pictures in photoshop to 960x800 for wallpaper and 480x800 for lockscreen wallpaper. All WVGA androids use these resolutions.
I just checked, i dont loose any of my picture in that resolution.
Hope this helps.
The screens resolution is 480x800, not 960x800, the latter is for scrollable wallpapers, which I never use. So if someone wants to use a full picture set to one screen then he/she should use a wallpaper of phones resolution, i.e- 480x800
Regards.
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PeterK1990 said:
There it goes "wrong", whenever i do that in portrait mode, and I select the part i want and set it as wallpaper... the result will be that it is zoomed in.
For example as i drag the orange lines around my girlfriend and I set it... it will only show me the chest, stomach and a part of the legs instead of the whole body.
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I have this same problem, i have resorted to just using the scrollable crop button and knowing that I'll lose the edges. There's certainly some sort of bug regarding this.
I have a photo taken with the SG2 camera that is 480x800. When I set wallpaper, I select portrait mode (non-scrollable, single photo).
However, the actual wallpaper is still zoomed in and I don't know why. Portrait-mode wallpapers seem to be broken, the phone wants to stretch photos into scroll-mode size even though it is not selected.
The lock screen wallpaper works fine.
Anyone know a fix?
Edit: The same problem is described here and also for other phones, no answer yet: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121133
Edit: I have a fix, but it's not a good one. Using a photo editor, add 240x800 pixels to either side of your image. This will produce a 960x800 image. Set this as your scrollable wallpaper (this will not work if you select portrait-mode). Then, use your launcher options to disable wallpaper scrolling.
If you are using stock launcher it should work. If your pic is 480 x 800, select portrait mode , drag the orange lines to fit the whole screen and your pic won't zoom in. The way Samsung uses this feature is crappy anyway. I gotta try 2-3 times before i can adjust the orange lines to fit the screen, without pic being zoomed-in.

Comic-reading apps fullscreen issue (Comicrack, PV etc.)

Has anyone found an app or method to stretch the comic page to completely fit the screen? When I choose "fit to screen" it has large black spaces on either side. I am looking for a way to utilize all my screen space without it shrinking the comic down to the size of say, the Nook Tablet. I guess the image would have to be stretched somewhat. Anyone know what i'm talking about ?
I haven't tried on the Touchpad yet, but on my Nook I would always use the "fit to width" option, then there is just some vertical scrolling needed. Of course, that has a smaller screen too so I would need to read in landscape mode and scroll for each row of panels. It still worked pretty well though.
I bought my touchpad just to read comics on. If your describing what I think you are, its because most comics are not the exact size of the screen so when your in portrait mode there's about a half inch of blank space so its just black. If you stretched the comic it would probably look weird.
SithL0rd said:
I bought my touchpad just to read comics on. If your describing what I think you are, its because most comics are not the exact size of the screen so when your in portrait mode there's about a half inch of blank space so its just black. If you stretched the comic it would probably look weird.
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That was one of my reasons for buying a TP too.
On PV for example, when you choose "actual size" it spreads past the left/right borders I would just love it to stay when it hits them so I can utilize all my screen space and not have to scroll. It would be stretching the image I guess but it doesn't look weird because I can do it if I zoom manually, but I have to do so for every page, thus, scrolling. I am not sure if there are other issues such as resolution complicating the problem. It's like the cropping issue on wallpapers - I just don't have the knowledge to identify what the problem is exactly. The correct borders aren't being detected. It seems to happen on every app. The "fit to screen" function thinks the black space is part of the comic.
It's not a huge deal I would just love to find a method to stretch the image to fit perfectly. Would gladly pay for it.
I use comic rack and when it's in landscape mode and I put it on single page, the page fits automatically width wise, doesn't go past. I just scroll up and down, don't need to go left/right to see cut off images. It's that what you're trying to achieve? Same thing goes with PV for me. Width wise the page fits
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Perfect viewer works very well for me for all of the comics I've read. I fit to width and just have to touch to scroll once to get the last inch or so and then to turn the page. Works great with the TP as there seems to be minimal distortion of the panels with its aspect ratio.
Yes that is what I am using (fit to width). It is almost perfect but yeah, you gotta tap the page to get the extra height.
I am guessing this is some technical problem, as I have yet to see any reading app that can fill the page on both the width and height exactly. Yet, when I read PDF magazines on Perfect Viewer, it squeezes the image into the screen and I can read it easily.
Maybe it's the comic resolution or something (though I have tested multiple).
I don't see it not fitting vertically an issue. If everything did fit on the page sometimes the words would be too small to read. I use the TP in landscape mode all the time, I like viewing pages that way better.
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YiNG_YaNG_6o4 said:
I don't see it not fitting vertically an issue. If everything did fit on the page sometimes the words would be too small to read. I use the TP in landscape mode all the time, I like viewing pages that way better.
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Most of this was I answered above, recently referencing how PV delas with PDF's, squeezing it onto the screen.
Can't fathom reading comics in landscape mode as this would make them even bigger than most physical comics, and only allow you like 1 strip per read.

[Q] question about movies

I'm watching a lot of movies on the go, but what annoys me is the two black stripes on top and bottom of picture. Is there a program that could get rid of that so the picture fills up the whole screen? I know you can adjust the size from the player's settings but that only zooms in and cuts away portion of the picture.
Download mx player from the market and that video player can stretch your video without cutting the corners off
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Actually this is what I use to watch the movies but if I stretch the picture, well the player does it without keeping the aspect ratio everything is stretched out, and it looks funny, then if you hit the button one more time it goes to zoom, and although it returns original shapes it cuts away the corners.
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Youtube TV and Youtube issues.

While viewing Youtube TV in portrait or landscape mode it will constantly revert from picture to showing picture with play/pause controls. I have to hit the X in top right corner to clear the controls. With my other Android devices it doesn't happen. Rotating from portrait to landscape just shows the picture without control buttons. I don't have to hit the X to clear the control buttons. Youtube is not as bad. But I still have to hit the X at the top right once to clear the control buttons and then going from portrait to landscape shows as it should. Does anyone else have this issue with this phone?

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