[MPlayer-dev-eng] The best (YUV-enabled) vo_quartz settings :-)

[Camillo Lugaresi]

At 2:11 -0400 3-05-2004, D Richard Felker III wrote:
>On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:50:58PM -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
>>
>>  On Mon, 3 May 2004, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>>
>>  > Don't lie to mplayer ! :-)
>>
>>	Well, that lie worked before so I thought I'd try it again ;)
>>
>>  > try -monitoraspect 16:10.
>>  >
>>  > vo_quartz think your monitor is 4/3 with a 16:10 resolution,
>>  > so it tries to compensate for the non-square pixels...
>>
>>	Ah ha!  That works much better.   Hmmm, that still feels like a bug
>>	to me.   Aren't the dimensions of the screen the -monitoraspect by
>>	definition?   Where is vo_quarts getting 4/3 from?
>
>-monitoraspect specifies the PHYSICAL dimensions of the screen, not
>the number of pixels. The default for monitoraspect is always 4/3
>because it can't be reliably obtained from most vo's.

OS X should be able to report all necessary information about the 
monitor(s) (pixel ratio, resolution etc.). I think vo_quartz should 
get the information from the OS and ignore the mplayer defaults.

Camillo Lugaresi