[MPlayer-users] [Bugreport]

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 11 May 2002, Attila Kinali wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sat, 11 May 2002 18:59:20 +0200
> Dominik Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > When using vo xv, apparently MPlayer's xv window remembers its last size
> > and position and always rescales video output to that size, ignoring
> > video stream resolution and aspect. -x, -y, -xy parameters have no effect.
> > When using vo x11, the window itself still remembers the last size and
> > position, but the video output is not rescaled (which is ok).
> > When using SDL, the output window behaves normally, i.e. it has the size
> > of the movie so the video is not rescaled. -x, -y, -xy parameters have no
> > effect either.
> > In both xv and SDL case resizing the window manually using mouse rescales
> > the video to fill the window, ignoring aspect.
> 
> Nope, mplayer does not do this... i guess it's sawfish who remembers it.

So you're saying sawfish is forcing mplayer to resize its video window?
Jeez. Can any sawfish/GNOME with sawfish users out there confirm this?

But why does mplayer keep movie aspect ratio on some graphics cards
and doesn't on others? Is that a driver issue?

Anyway, thanks for this lead.
 
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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>