[Mplayer-dev-eng] patch for widescreen videos

[Stephen Davies]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Vaclav Slavik wrote:

> attached small patch enabled MPlayer to play widescreen videos 
> (aspect ratio of 16:9). This is pretty useful when you want to play 
> widescreen DVDs with MPlayer ;) 
> 
> The patch adds -widescreen cmd line option and changes mplayer.c so 
> that it passes altered desired screen height to the video driver. 
> Some drivers follow d_height hint, some don't. Windowed modes work 
> just fine with -widescreen, some fullscreen ones do, some don't (I 
> had to modify Xv driver, which I use).

Hi Vaclav,

I've previously submitted a somewhat similar patch.  Mine went a little
further to also correct the minor non-square pixel ratios of ordinary
digital video (ie 720x576 should be stretched to 768x576).  And it picks
up the aspect tag from vobs automatically.

Developers - do you want this patch again?  I seem to remember a view that
the code should be factored into the libvo2 stuff coming etc.  But in the
meantime it fixes a problem, and getting it into the CVS would stop people
wasting time reimplementing it...

Also - my patch for files >4GB?    It looks like the idea to do a release
has been abandoned, and this change is a lot more minor than others going
in.  This change has also been re-implemented by someone else in the
meantime.

Regards,
Steve




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