[MPlayer-users] Changing aspect ratio while playing a file

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Sebastian Kaps!

 On 2005.11.15 at 21:44:15 +0100, Sebastian Kaps wrote next:

> "mplayer -input cmdlist" shows that there's a switch_ratio command which
> can be used to change the aspect ratio. So I could bind a key to
> e.g. "switch_ratio 1.77778" for videos in 16:9 format.
> But this way videos in 2.35:1 format would be scaled wrongly and I'd
> have to define another key for this format ans so on.
> 
> So is there an easier way?
> 

No. I use

F1 switch_ratio 1.3333
F2 switch_ratio 1.7777
F3 switch_ratio 1.85
F4 switch_ratio 2.3
F5 switch_ratio 0

The last one switches back to original aspect ratio.

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Vladimir