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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:55:29AM +1000, Sammo wrote:
> Jan Knutar wrote:
> 
> >On Saturday 16 October 2004 11:05, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote:
> >
> >>On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:56, syrius.ml at no-log.org wrote:
> >>
> >>>What do you think ?
> >>>
> >>Pretty pointless, IMHO. There is one correct aspect ratio for any given 
> >>video. Why would anyone want to change it during playback?
> >
> >I've seen some mpeg's with incorrect aspect stored in the headers...
> 
> I'd like to see this feature as well. Even for files with correct 
> aspect, sometimes it is useful to stretch 4:3 content to fit a 16:9 
> screen. Better still, I like to stretch 4:3 content to 14:9 and then 
> zoom in about 115% to fit fullscreen content to widescreen monitor - 
> that's a trade-off between squashed image and cropped top/bottom.

then you should have a runtime toggle for monitor_aspect that lies
about your monitor's aspect ratio, not the file's aspect ratio...

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this kind of crap is really inappropriate on public mailing lists.

rich