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

[Sebastian Kaps]

Hi Rich!

>> Why? If I use "mplayer -monitoraspect 16:9" on a 4:3 video, mplayer
>> scales it down horizontally. There's no way to do this without losing
> No it does not. It scales it way up both horizontally and vertically,
> then your tv-out device downscales vertically and band-limits
> horizontally.

When you run "mplayer -nofs -monitoraspect 16:9" on a 4:3 video, you can
see that the height of the picture stays the same as with
"-monitoraspect 4:3" but the width changes by a factor of 0.7.

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Ciao, Sebastian