[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] dsize negative scale values

[Oded Shimon]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:58:32PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 13:50:52 +0300
> Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > However, for some people, it IS 
> > useful (RC mentioned he needed this, could you explain why BTW? I'm 
> > curious..).
> 
> Because of interlaced material.  You really want to leave the vertical
> unscaled to preserve the interlacing, and instead scale the width to
> match the aspect.  MPlayer will normally upscale the height, completely
> ruining the interlacing.

So, umm, don't you want the prescaled aspect for that, not the 
original-aspect?...

> > Say, I want a bounding box which will be the minimum size, not
> > possible with your compromise. 
> 
> But why would anyone ever want anything like that?  A maximum size makes
> sense, but (like rounding) I can't imagine any use for a minimum.

In the same way I can't imagine any use for the "original aspect" keeping, 
but I added it anyway. :) There's no reason to limit the user... You never 
know what use can come from an obscure feature.

> > Ok.. It's long.. But it's not complicated. Is it?
> 
> Not too complicated.  I'm fine with it.

Ok, yey, then we all agree, use my compromise?..

- ods15