al_get_video_scaled_height(3alleg5)

✨ al_get_video_scaled_height(3alleg5) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API — this one's a lil function from the allegro_video.h era and it's genuinely so useful, no cap 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro_video.h>

float al_get_video_scaled_height(ALLEGRO_VIDEO *video)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So like… this function hands you back the height you should actually draw the video frame at. That's it, that's the whole job 💅

But wait, why is that even a thing?? Because — and this is the tea — videos often do not use square pixels. Yeah. Non-square pixels. Iconic of them honestly. So this will may return a value larger than the height of the frame bitmap, and that's not a bug, that's just the pixel aspect ratio doing its main character thing 🦋

fr fr: don't just grab the bitmap height and call it a day. ask this function. trust. 😭

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• al_get_video_frame(3alleg5)

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.1.12 — been here since way back, lowkey a classic 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the Allegro reference manual version of al_get_video_scaled_height(3alleg5) — go draw your video at the right height, you're gonna ate it up 💖🎀🫶