[FFmpeg-user] Resizing ffplay window with fixed aspect ratio

[Dave Blanchard]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:43:55 -0600
Rick Keniuk <daddyo323 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When watching 4:3 aspect and you don't want stuff missing.  Thats a good
> reason for the black bars.

I mean when displaying video in a window, not fullscreen. Of course you would want the bars in fullscreen mode, or if maximized. I don't see any useful reason to have them when resizing the window. MPlayer gets this right; in fact it gets a lot of things right that ffplay gets wrong. Unfortunately, it leaks memory.