virtualbox - Getting 1920x1080 resolution or 16:9 aspect ratio on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

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2014-07
  • Terribad

    I am running Ubuntu and Linux Mint in VMWare. In the display settings, none of the 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions are available, including the commonly used 1920x1080 resolution. How can I enable this?

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  • Terribad

    Enter the following commands in a terminal to enable 1920x1080 resolution:

    xrandr --newmode "1920x1080"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode Virtual1 1920x1080
xrandr --output Virtual1 --mode 1920x1080

    This will set your display resolution to 1920x1080 and also enable several other 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions in the display settings.

    Remember that you may have to enable full screen mode in VMWare before these resolutions become selectable.


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    I am currently attempting to burn a screen capture file to DVD. I will admit that I know very little about the process, the terminology, and am at a loss of how to find this information. I am using Nero 9 and am very displeased that the manuals available to me online explain very little.

    My current problem is that when I burn to DVD, my beautiful screen capture ends up being cropped. Through endless amounts of googling I am under the impression that this is due to aspect ratio. However, as windows will not tell me the resolution size for me to determine the correct aspect ratio I do not know how to proceed. Is there a way using Nero 9 for me to be able to burn my screen capture to DVD?

    Any advice or suggestions are appreciated.


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  • Carlos Alloatti

    The screen video capture is 16:10; 16:9 or 4:3? Do you want to create a 16:9 or a 4:3 DVD?

    Read up on letterboxing, pillarboxing and windowboxing to understand your options.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterbox

    You can use DVD Flick (open source) to create your DVD and let the program decide the output format based on the input format:

    http://www.dvdflick.net/

    Or you can use ConvertXtoDVD ($) to have more options, in Settings-Video processing-Video resize options:

    These are the two programs I use, I am shure there are many other options out there. Having tested Nero for creating DVDs, I did not like it, I just use it to burn the VIDEO_TS folder created by any of the two aforementioned programs.