[MPlayer-users] fullscreen, tv

[Ivo]

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 05:38, MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote:
> I use mplayer to play my xvids on my tv, through mythtv.
> The problem i'm having is this.
> If i run with the option -V x11, there is no problems
> but if i run with -V xv,
> it's like it's widescreen.  So if my xvid is widescreen already (i like
> it like that personnaly, i know a waste of space, but what i like)
> so what i mean is mplayer fills up horizontally all the way, but
> vertically it leaves a bottom and top black par, that even if i play a
> fullscreen xvid
> still looks fullscreen, and when i play widescreen, it adds to it making
> it look very bad.  I've even tried dvd's and the same problem.  I was
> having the same problem with xine, my preferred player for dvd's, but i
> just had to change the aspect ratio to 4:3.  Haven't figured it out yet
> for mplayer.  Any help?

I have some trouble understanding what you actually mean, but anyway:

Forcing the aspect to a certain ratio can be done with -aspect 4/3 for 
example.

If you want to remove black bars of a letterboxed recording, you can use -vf 
cropdetect and -vf crop.

If you want to add black bars to a widescreen recording w/o black bars, you 
can use -vf expand. See manpage for details.

--Ivo