[MPlayer-users] mplayer not maintaining aspect ratio in fullscreen mode

[Michael Salcher]

That was a very helpfull message. I do have a TFT and setting
monitoraspect to 5:4 did do the trick. Thanks a lot for your help.

Alexander Roalter wrote:
> Michael Salcher wrote:
> 
>> I find that the aspect ratio does not change when resizing the window
>> when running "mplayer". But it does change when resizing the window when
>> using "gmplayer".
>> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with GMplayer, since all I use is the command line, but
> perhaps gmplayer uses a different monitoraspect?
> 
> 1280x1024 is a sad thing for display, if you're using a CRT, you have to
> specify monitoraspect 4:3 (default), if you're using a TFT, you most
> likely have to specify 5:4, otherwise playing in fullscreen will result
> in slightly distorted (i.e. too tall) images. Playing a Fullscreen
> (1.33:1) movie on a TFT with 1280x1024 should have black bars below and
> above!
> 
> I don't know if monitoraspect is handled if no fullscreen is used, so it
> might well be that you're using a TFT with 5:4 screen and have not
> specified a monitoraspect (for gmplayer or mplayer) and when going to
> fullscreen mplayer thinks it's 4:3 (its default setting) and distributes
> the image over the entire screen (which is not correct in this case).
> 
> cheers,
> Alex
> 
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