[MPlayer-users] monitor size vs. aspect ratio vs. resolution

[Philip Prindeville]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
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>>>Hi Philip Prindeville!
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>>>On 2005.08.14 at 23:50:29 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote next:
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>>>>Umm...  If the monitor is DDC/EDID plug n play compatible (and there's
>>>>no reason why the builtin LCD screen on a laptop wouldn't be), then it
>>>>will sense (via EDID) both the resolution (obviously) as well as the
>>>>physical monitor size.
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>>>Yes, but mplayer will happily ignore them ;)
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>>And the reason for that would be?
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>It's been discussed many times, and basically the reason is that some
>of us think they're wrong more often than right, or else they're "too
>correct" and cause silly off-by-one issues in scaling because the
>monitor is 16.001:9 rather than 16:9 or such. Anyway use monitoraspect
>and you'll be fine.
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>Rich
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Well, you'd think that simple approximation would be enough to
address that problem...

-Philip