[MPlayer-users] fullscreen scaling problems with high-res videos - bug?

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
> >Has anyone else encountered this trouble, or do I just have dumb video 
> >cards?
> >
> >I'm having some trouble watching videos in Mplayer with a resolution 
> >higher than my screen resolution.  When I fullscreen such a video, 
> >instead of scaling it down to fit the screen, it crops it to fit the 
> >screen.  ...I don't want it cropped, I want it scaled (I imagine 
> >that's what most people would want).  I've tried on two different 
> >machines with -vo xv (s3 Savage-IX) and xvidix (Nvidia Riva of some 
> >sort).  I'm running the latest mplayer CVS.

The overlay of e.g. Riva 128 AFAIK can't downscale...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger