[Mplayer-dvb] ANNOUNCEMENT: mplayer.sh 0.0.4 ready

[Frank]

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 20:20, Tilo Renkl wrote:
anything new on this ?
i also would appreciate this safety mechanism !
i have lots of old divx movies that cannot be played with vdr cuz of the
resolution thing.

thanks for your great work !
f
> Hi Arpi,
> 
> maybe you can insert a lets say "savety mechanism", that when
> the caculated height is >576 it uses 576 by default. That would help.
> 
> Tilo
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > The second, and that really bad is this:
> > > > If I replay a 480x384 video, your filter calculates a new height
> > > > of 614 (!) and the mplayer say: Cannot initialize video driver !
> > > 
> > > hmm
> > > and it does the sacling right!
> > > 
> > > 480x384 with sqaure pixels is 5:4, not 4:3 as your TV
> > 
> > Originally it was 720x576, but when encoding it to divx with
> > mencoder I used a smaller size to reduce bitrate, and I think
> > quality is very good.
> > 
> > > 
> > > you can do 2 things to workaround:
> > > 1. set TV aspect ratio to 5:4 by using dvbscale=720, to get 
> > > 614->576 scaled
> > > 2. use crop instead of / with expand, to crop 614 down to 576
> > > 
> > > you'll see which one looks better (correct aspect ratio)
> > > 
> > > btw, do you have 2.1 card?
> > > with my 1.3, any width fills the TV screen well
> > 
> > Don't know exactly, I think it is a 1.3 (with two LNB connektors)
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> > > 
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