[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Pivoting

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Sonntag, 21. August 2005 15:13 schrieb Ivan Kalvachev:
> I think the default should be monitor aspect autodetection.
> If there is no autodetected we fall back to 4:3 or square pixel.

There have been discussions about this topic which showed that there are 
quite some people who think that many X11 installations have wrong 
display dimensions.
Anyway, the fallback should be square pixel (which should be right for 
most displays).

> If somebody wants the default monitor-aspect=4:3 he could put it in
> the config file.

Of course.

> Under X there is speacal function that queries phisical dimensions of
> the visible area.

Right.

> I think it is also possible to extract aspect from modeline (after all
> monitors do that too;)

The modline does not contain the aspect or the physical dimensions.

Regards,
  Matthias