[FFmpeg-user] Problems to rescale video for a specific hardware (Beaglebone)

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

 <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:

> With only a little stuttering using 
> 
>     mplayer -vo x11 Video.mpg

Is there no other vo working for this hardware?
x11 does not support hardware scaling and does not 
allow a decent playback performance.

> it is possible to play the video. 
> 
> But: The video does not fit onto the screen and has the wrong aspect
> ration... "egghead syndrome"...
> 
> (I currently have no ffmpeg combo on the Beaglebone available since it
> does not compile natively on it due to too less memory).

It should be easy to disable some features that you don't need.

[...]

> I also tried to use "-setdar 16:9" which is documented 

where?

> on the net but not accepted by my ffmpeg.

(Command line and complete, uncut console output missing.)

Please see http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#setdar_002c-setsar
All filters need -vf filtername=value

Carl Eugen