[MPlayer-users] fullscreen, tv

MacNean C. Tyrrell dardack at nycap.rr.com
Wed Oct 20 21:59:49 CEST 2004


D Richard Felker III wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:09:48AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 20 October 2004 05:38, MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>I have some trouble understanding what you actually mean, but anyway:
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>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.
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>rich
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No it is not a widescreen tv.  It's a regular tv.

What i mean is that mplayer is not filling up the tv screen with -V xv. 
I've attach a png file to show what i mean.  Say the whole png picture 
is the tv screen, the grey part is what mplayer takes up.
However if i use -V x11 option fills up the whole tv screen.
I've tried monitoraspect and that doesn't work.




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