[MPlayer-users] fullscreen, tv

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:09:48AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> 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:

me too, but i think he means he's playing on a widescreen tv and thus
it looks wrong. the solution is NOT to use -aspect, which would mess
up for movies with different aspects, but to use -monitoraspect 16/9
to tell mplayer your display is 16:9.

rich