Llars

I found a solution I am more or less happy with. I found that line 125 controls the formatting of the Video Panel so I set the background color to match the theme color like so: <!-- View Start --> <Canvas Height="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualHeight}" Width="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualWidth}" Background="#313536" > Previously this was set to Black. The end result is no borders on 4:3 content as shown below. Anything not 4:3 is an issue however because it still stretches incorrectly. So I am currently using ffmpeg to letterbox non 4:3 videos into a 4:3 aspect ratio using this command. for %%f in (*.mp4) do ( echo %%~nf f:\ffmpeg -i "%%~nf.mp4" -vf "pad=width=max(iw\,ih*(4/3)):height=ow/(4/3):x=(ow-iw)/2:y=(oh-ih)/2" "output\%%~nf.mp4" ) So I'm more or less happy with this solution other than having to re-encode all of my videos to 4:3. Ideally the video panel should be transparent and should dynamically scale to the content to eliminate all black bars but that's probably asking a lot.

So with some trial and error, I was able to make some tweaks to the Wheel2GamesView.xaml file to get the video to render within the boundaries of the Video Panel. I found that I could make the video smaller by adjusting this in the Main Video Section. <!-- <ScaleTransform ScaleX="1" ScaleY="1" /> --> <ScaleTransform ScaleX=".83" ScaleY=".83" /> The left a black border on the left side so I also had to tweak this value to re-center the video in the box. <!-- <TranslateTransform X="{Binding ElementName=Canvas,Path=ActualWidth,Converter={StaticResource ScalePropertyValueD},ConverterParameter=X;479;2560}" Y="{Binding ElementName=Canvas,Path=ActualHeight,Converter={StaticResource ScalePropertyValueD},ConverterParameter=Y;0;1440}" /> --> <TranslateTransform X="{Binding ElementName=Canvas,Path=ActualWidth,Converter={StaticResource ScalePropertyValueD},ConverterParameter=X;455;2560}" Y="{Binding ElementName=Canvas,Path=ActualHeight,Converter={StaticResource ScalePropertyValueD},ConverterParameter=Y;0;1440}" /> The end result is the attached screenshot. So the video is no longer cropped. The ideal solution would be to make the video panel 4:3 instead of 1:1 but at least this is better than it was. Edit: It appears that while this works well for 4:3 640x480, other platforms that aren't 4:3 like GBA and PSP are still horribly cropped.

I don't see a way to search comments on this page so maybe this was brought up before. Running Colorful Dark and I'm noticing that game videos on the Platforms and Game List pages are slightly cropped on the sides. It's like the video playback window has a 1:1 aspect ratio instead of 4:3. If I dial all the way down to the game specific page then the video plays back in the correct aspect ratio. It seems like there would be enough room to have a 4:3 aspect ratio playback window.