Don't display video in screen cutouts

[zhengqwe]

Add an option to control whether to display the video in the screen cutout. This will be useful for non-full screen devices.

[sfan5]

Can you give an example of "non-full screen devices"?

[zhengqwe]

Can you give an example of "non-full screen devices"?

I mean a lot of phones have some component at the top of the screen (like the front camera), in some cases the video image is obscured by them. Cases where components are present on the screen are non-full-screen(The screen is not a complete block). My first language is not English, sorry.

[sfan5]

So you just mean normal devices with a cutout. I see.
I have a phone with a cutout myself and I don't mind the fullscreen playback (though the phone aspect ratio is wider than most video content anyway).
mpv-android used to have an option to not display in cutouts but I removed it a while ago due to implementation issues and because I wondered about if anyone was using it.

Not sure what to make of this.

[zhengqwe]

Not sure what to make of this.

bring back the Extend video into the notch/cutout area feature and enable it default.

[4lex4]

@sfan5

I wondered about if anyone was using it.

Are you kidding? Of course we use that, some devices have the big notch. mpv was great before you removed it for no reason, even vlc added the feature some time ago. It is a mandatory feature for any player on android just not requiring a discussion.

[sfan5]

As mentioned, it was not removed for no reason.
You are welcome to have a try at implementing this feature. Here is the old commit and here is Google's documentation.