[MPlayer-users] aspect ratio

[Corey Hickey]

Germán Gabriel Estévez wrote:
>   Anybody knows why the diference between the aspect ratio of dvd movies 
> that mplayer detect, and the aspect ratio printed in the dvd box. Could 
> be mplayer detect a wrong aspect ratio ?.
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> *Ing. Germán G. Estévez*
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DVD video is played back with a different resolution than that in which
it is encoded. Look at the mlayer output for a line like this:

VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12

The first resolution is how the video is stored, and the second is how
it gets played back.

-Corey