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

[Julián Nuñez]

Matthias Wieser wrote:

>>>>Why xawtv works is also clear: it always assumes square pixels.
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>>>...which is probabyl right for >95% of mplayer users.
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>>which assuming 4:3 monitor aspect probably is, too.
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>No. Probably 50% of all displays bought in the last year do not have an 
>aspect ratio of 4:3. More and more notebooks tend to have 15:9 displays 
>and all 17" and 19" TFT displays do have a 4:5 aspect ratio.
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Uh, I may be living in another world, but here in Argentina we barely
know what TFT displays are. 99.9% of users use 4:3 displays.

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