[MPlayer-users] Re: MPlayer-users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 39

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:05:04PM -0700, Phillip Heller wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:26:17PM -0500, pheller at lessjunk.com wrote:
> > 
> > > If I specify "-monitoraspect 1.666", then the ratio is right, however there is a
> > > whole lot of extra space around the image; it could be scaled larger.
> > 
> > You probably have black bars above and below because they are part of the
> > picture and black bars on both sides added by mplayer because your screen
> > is wider than the picture (do you have black bars above and below when
> > playing the movie in non-fullscreen mode?).
> > 
> > If I'm right, then -vf crop is your friend.
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Ville
> 
> Yes, -vf crop worked.
> 
> I simply did 'gmplayer -monitoraspect 1.6666 -vf cropdetect', took it's
> suggestion, and then re-ran with '-vf crop'.

Is your monitor 1.6666 times as wide as it is tall? I really doubt it.
If not, -monitoraspect 1.6666 is not the correct way to solve your
aspect problem. Instead you should use -aspect to tell the aspect
ratio of the movie.

Rich