Mañana

Well...

First set yor screen to 800x600, and then make the screen cut the image (instead of stretching it). Then you make the screen display only the upper part of the screen via the "vert pos" (vertical possition) option.
(Preferably you place the start menu on the upper side of the desktop).
Now youve got a bit of the desktop not shown on the screen, but w/e. You don't miss it, do you? Just dont place any icons there. =P

If your runnig MediaCar you just set the mediacar resolution to 800x480 and your done.

If your running Frodoplayer its a bit more difficult. Frodoplayer itself will work fine, but the fullscreen option cant be set to use the upper 800x480 pixels. It autopmaticly uses the whole screen, even if FrodoPlayer doesnt. Anyone have any ideas of fixing this? I've thougt about if it could be fixed with a plugin in wmp or anything, but ive not got the skills to fix that.

Have never tried any of the other software found here, so cant tell you anything abut it...



Touchscreens:
In the touchscreen utility you can make the touch panel active with only the shown part of the diplay via the "split screen" option, and then you just adjust the ts to the 800x480 resolution. Then you have to re-calibrate the ts, since the resolution change of some reason screws the x and y axis up. (Can get you ppl some screenshots if you want it)

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GWRedDragon

Funny, with my NVidia card and Lilliput all I had to do was add a custom resolution of 800x480 and the drivers did the rest...it's nice and Windows native now.

DarquePervert

That's an nVidia-based card. Not everyone's PC has video with an nVidia chipset...

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PaCMaYNE

why would you want 800x480 anyways?

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Nicholasp27

that's the res of the 7" screens

RS3RS

800x480 is the native resolution of both the Lilliput and Xenarc LCD panels. Anything else (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc.) is running a ratio the LCD isn't designed for. Running it at 800x480 allows it to show the image as it was meant to be displayed, with no stetching or scaling. Better quality that way.

frodobaggins

You just turn on advanced screen settings and edit the ini for exact size
and positioning.

Open frodoplayer.ini
Find this and set it to true.

[MAIN]
USE_ADVANCED_SCREEN_SETTINGS=TRUE

then at the bottom: (This is in pixels)

[ADVANCED]
ADV_TOP=0
ADV_LEFT=0
ADV_WIDTH=800
ADV_HEIGHT=480

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Mañana

Yes, that makes Frodoplayer use the upper 800x480 pixels. But if you try to play movies in fullscreen (eg doubbleklicking the small movie window in FP) it automaticly fills the whole screen.

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zPilott

hmmmm, I was wondering why there wasn't an option to do this, I guess I never tried out that option. If it works for me, this will make me very happy

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zPilott

hmmm, all this did was move the screen up (i guess i did try that option after all), leaving me with black space on the bottom equal to what I cut off on the top. I would really like to be able to have a virtual desktop type thing, but I think for that to work, my video card would still have to be able to output 800x480, right?

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Mañana

The thing with this solution is that your videocard do not need to be able to output 800x480. Just make sure ur Xenarc does cut the image, instead of stretch it. I'll get u ppl that doesn't understand what I'm talking about an image soon, formatting it right now =)

Update: Now I've got a picture of it. I'm useing a vga splitter (if you havent figured that out Sorry for the bad image image quality, but I didnt have time to fix the light )

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zPilott

i understand what you are saying, but I don't know how to make the xenarc only display part of the screen, it automatically scales the screen, and I don't know of any way to make it cut. The vert pos option (and hpos too, fwiw) when I tried it, only moved the squished screen up an down, and only by about 20 or so pixels. There doesn't appear to be any menu option to select between squish and pan. I bought the screen used, so maybe there is some macigal start up mode that changes it, but I don't know what it is.

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nl4jy

How do you disable stretch? I tried looking but I can't seem to find it. Is it in software or hardware?

Mañana

Actually, I dont know how to make it stretch =P
Mine always cut...

Read somewhere on this forum that the drivers may affect that... I'm useing the latest drivers from Vias hompage. Sorry, cant help you any further.

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