[MPlayer-dev-eng] [BUG] xmga+panscan crops too much

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 11:55:46AM +0200, gabucino at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
> Play a file (any type/size) with xmga, and push panscan to the maximum
> with the E key. The decrease it to the minimum with W.
> 
> Now, the displayed picture is like this:
> 
>         ._________________________.    <- movie image
>         +-------------------------+    <- displayed image
>         |                         |
>         |                         |
>         |                         |
>         |                         |
>         |                         |
>         |                         |
>         |                         |
>         |                         |
>         +-------------------------+    <- displayed image
>         ^-------------------------^    <- movie image
> 
> So a band of the image is cropped at the top and at the bottom. Increasing
> panscan ONCE, brings back the normal status. Decreasing it ONCE gets the
> cropped picture again.
> 
> BTW: when will panscan work on -vo mga? .so?

IMO a much better question is why on earth panscan is in the vo
modules at all. It would make much more sense as a
runtime-controllable crop filter that reconfigs the vo. Perhaps this
would break broken vo's, but those need to be fixed anyway...

Rich