[MPlayer-users] 12 thoughts about MPlayer

[Felix Buenemann]

On Monday 22 April 2002 08:09, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> > > Could that be done with mplayer too?
> >
> > mplayer has correct aspect correction for mpeg, so what you want?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >         Atmos
>
> Well, not always: here, with a simple "mplayer -dvd 1" the aspect
> is okay for xv, xmga, gl, dxr3, but it is NOT for: dga, svga
> This is a quite "standard" dvd (french movie "Taxi 2") with
> aspect ratio 1.78 (16:9) and the problem exists in fact with
> any DVD movie I can lay hands on (except possibly a few ones
> which have a 4:3 video encoding).
> Are you saying that DVD movies are not mpeg files ???
>
Those drivers you mentioned don't have hardware scaling and thus can't scale 
the movie to correct aspect. -vo dga can be used with -zoom to enable 
swscaling (there's -vop scale now for all drivers, but it doesn't yet 
autodetect values for aspect).

-- 
Best Regards,
        Atmos
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