[MPlayer-users] Re: [-] XV display too wide

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 03:36:25PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Too intelligent? Intelligent would be to ask X11 about the display 
> properties...

No, because it will return nonsense often enough. AFAIK this was tried
once and seemed to cause nothing but trouble.

> > MPlayer assumes, that all screens are 4:3, because a lot of people
> > were setting their X resolution to something non-4:3 to get more
> > out of their limited monitor space, thus using non-square pixels.
> 
> Because a *some* people do set their monitor to non-squar pixels, all 
> users of 17" and 19" TFT displays, all users of WXGA notebooks, all users 
> of ... have to use a command line switch to say mplayer that they do use 
> a sane resolution?

They can put it in the config file. How many programs have you
encountered that can work perfectly without any configuration?

> > Why xawtv works is also clear: it always assumes square pixels.
> 
> ...which is probabyl right for >95% of mplayer users.

which assuming 4:3 monitor aspect probably is, too.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger