[MPlayer-users] [FEATURE REQUEST]: online aspect ratio toggle

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote:

US>> What do you think ?
US>
US>Pretty pointless, IMHO. There is one correct aspect ratio for any given 
US>video. Why would anyone want to change it during playback?

Because there are a lot of files with broken aspect ratio. From minor
16/9 aspect videos encoded @ 640x352, to mpeg1 with 352x288 or 352x240
resolutions without aspect tag, etc. Sometimes it's easier just to hit a
key that re-encoding the file.

Answer to the original question: it is possible with latest CVS. Write
in you input.conf something like this:

F1 switch_ratio 1.3333
F2 switch_ratio 1.7777
F3 switch_ratio 1.85
F4 switch_ratio 2.3
F5 switch_ratio 0

And play with aspect ratio as much as you like...

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Vladimir