Some text cut off in Celluloid tiled window video.
 

Hi.

I just noticed this video when played on a 50% right tiled Celluloid window. The same tiled window in VLC looks fine. Please see the 2 linked images.

- https://i.ibb.co/WnD36Tv/Screenshot-...8-13-16-20.png
- https://i.ibb.co/h8wWv9L/Screenshot-...8-13-16-24.png

Is there a way to make Celluloid show the full video while still in a tiled window?

Thanks.

Hi

I never liked the interface of Celluloid this is one of those reasons. Celluloid uses the mpv backend to play videos. I suggest installing smplayer which is frontend to mpv like Celluloid is a much better interface.

Hi Dave. I like SMplayer also. The only thing I dislike is it's inability to remember the playback speed per open session. You see, I play many videos at 1.2 or more (sometimes 1.6x). With Celluloid, as long as I don't close it, it remembers the changed playback speed of the previous video. With SMplayer, it's too tedious having to constantly change the playback speed with each new video.

The title "some text cut off" is misleading - it's part of the video that's cut off, it just happens to have words on it.
Or does it happen only when there's printed words in the video?
This should be easily fixable in any video player - if it isn't, it's time to drop it and use another one.
Just go through Celluloid's menus, I'm sure you'll find what you need to "fit to window" or zoom out etc.

Yes, I guess that is a better description.
It's only noticeable when there's text although I presume it also happens when there's no text - just not as noticeable then.

I just play mp4 videos with smplayer seems to look better the VLC. Have you tried VLC for your issue?

What's the link? I have celluloid, I'll try using mine to see if it happens.

Hi Dave. I was using VLC for years. I got tired of it's oddities - not playing audio at the very befogging of some videos, crashing when fast-forwarding/rewinding, garbled screenshots, etc.

Here you go: https://youtu.be/wFQ3wyqITP8

I have never had issues with vlc not playing a music file or befogging videos. I use it on Linux Mint and windows. What OS are you using you never said or I am blind.

I'm running Debian. My old PC ran an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU. My current PC has an AMD CPU & GPU. The same issues remain with VLC.

First off, you need to download the YouTube video, which I did using this online YouTube-download (vlc among others apps also).
Then playing it with Celluloid. All text was seen. No cutoffs.

Did you change the Celluloid video window to a 50% right tiled window? What's your monitor resolution? Mine is 1920x1080.

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Yes, 1920X1080, and I went even more than 50%. See here:
https://imgur.com/4mAqg4A

But that's not 50% tiled.

I just tiled the video window to 50% of my screen and now the text shows ok. That's odd.

For some reason, I can't replicate the cut off text from post https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...7/#post6319009.

Could this be a graphics card driver issue?

I've not changed my GPU since the anomaly. Also, AFAIR, the drivers have been untouched.

How does the video play on YouTube is there cut off? I downloaded the video also to see if I had the issue. I could not reproduce either on celluloid. This is a long shot but on the menu on the upper right the three lines is the "automatic resize window to fix video" checked or unchecked?

I don't use celluloid, but if I saw this in mpv, the first thing I would do is press the "a" (change aspect ratio) key a few times and see if it changes anything.

Hi Dave. I tried that. No difference.

Have you tried purging celluloid than reinstalling it?

I don't see the need now. See post #17 - https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6327930

If the problem had a solution please mark thread solved.

I don't know what the solution was.

Well you ask me to re-read post 17 in post 24. So I thought it was resolved.

The issue is resolved but I'd like to know how it was resolved. If someone else comes to this thread with the same issue and sees the the 'solved' label -- they'll be searching in vain for the solution.

back in post 16 you said Does this mean you titled the monitor up and down?

Can you elaborate on that?

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I tiled the Celluloid window to the right, taking up 50% of the screen.

I just not sure how titling the screen would change videos cut off you experienced. Unless the monitor itself has some kind of short circuit somewhere.

But the VLC window text was fine so I'd probably rule out a monitor issue. :scratch:

I've noticed the cropped anomaly again today. Again, VLC did not have the issue.

Could be a problem of windowmanager/media player cooperation.

Which wm? And how do you achieve the tiling?

Out of curiosity, does this also happen with plain mpv? Because I have never seen this and I often use 50% tiling as seen in your screenshots.

I use the native MATE builtin tiling feature.

I just tried that last video again - now it's showing fine in Celluloid. I'll try to remember to try mpv if the issue returns.

This is extremely odd. I'll have to await the phantom anomaly to return.

A long shot are there any composting being used like Compton?

Compton isn't installed.

The issue is back today. I can confirm that mpv is ok - Celluloid seems to be the only video player that's affected.

Its odd that celluloid front-end has a video issue and MPV does not. below is a list of front ends to MPV but with Debian it will not be easy to install them.

https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free...ront-ends-mpv/

It could also have something to do with the window manager if it doesn't properly report changed window size to the application.

Interesting. What would be a safe way to try another wm without screwing things up?

I wonder if this info has any relevance:

Name: Metacity (Marco)
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF

I installed a few wms - metacity, xfwm4, etc. If the odd cut off text happens again in Celluloid with the Marco wm -- I'll run something like: and see if the issues goes away.

I just noticed the issue again. I ran the "--replace" command like above with metacity & xfwm4 -- the issue was still there. Hmmm. 🤔

The next time this issue occurs, I'll rename ~/.config/celluloid to ~/.config/celluloid.old and see if a fresh config fixes it.

I just noticed the issue again. So I closed the video, renamed the old celluloid config to ~/.config/celluloid.old and played the video again -- the issue was gone. Out of curiosity, I deleted the new ~/.config/celluloid file and tried the old ~/.config/celluloid file -- the issue was still gone. This is utterly bizarre! 😕

Yes I do agree. I do not see how a new config file can fix an old one.

I tried a new config file to rule out if the issue was with the old config file. It seemed to be. Then after trying the old config file again, the issue is still gone - so the issue is likely not with the config files. It's a real puzzler.