Hi all,

I'm new to Pd and to the forum. I want to make Pd play a video. I followed the youtube tutorial about this, but I have a problem. My video is widescreen 1280x720. So i'ts aspect ratio is 16:9 and not 4:3. So in the rectangle object I put "16 9" as values. But now I end up with the video being much to large for the window. It doesn't fit in there, and a large part of the video is unseen. What am I doing wrong? Here's a picture of my patch:

Thanks,
Hans Willem

The rectangle should be 16:9 as well

mvh

the arguments you give the [rectangle] object are values, and they seem arbitrary (who knows what the reference unit is in the Gem window?). But you just need a ratio of 16/9. The quick dirty method that I cam up with is attached.

adjust the fader until the rectangle fills the screen, then record those values in the arguments of the rectangle.

hope this works!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/16-9ratioizer.pd

Thanks for the replies!

In the image I posted the rectangle object has the values 6 and 4, but that's just a mistake on my part. I also tried 16 and 9 but it didn't work. I think I found it though. If I put 7,111 and 4 it seems to work.

Thanks again,
Hans Willem