[MPlayer-dev-eng] new results & bugs report

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:43:05AM +0200, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> >Nope, it will pick misaligned dimensions. I don't understand how this
> >is so hard. There are basically three aspect ratios:, 4:3, 16:9, and
> >64:27. The corresponding resolutions are 640x480, 640x352, and
> >640x272. You can visually inspect your movie to see which one it is,
> >then pick the right scaling. NO ONE will notice if the aspect is off
> >by 1-2% due to the cropping you used!
> 
> At low bitrates, visual quality is higher if you pick a slightly
> lower resolution, like 576 or even 512. Also, mplayer is *too*
> smart : if the resolution doesn't match the AR, then it will
> (properly) store the AR i nthe file, and scale it at display
> time - which can be a problem a low-end hardware.

Playing movies without a hardware overlay is a lost cause. The
tearing from lack of vsync makes them unwatchable. In any case,
mplayer won't soft-scale the movie unless you use -zoom and stuff. If
you put this in your config file, it's your fault...

> Anyway, now that I know the problem exist, I'll use multiple-of-16
> resolutions :-)

Good.

Rich