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

[Tony Houghton]

In <m3oe4jizko.fsf at toyland.sauerland.de>, Sebastian Kaps wrote:

> I'm running mplayer on an Intel i830 based set-top-box that uses a FS454
> chip for TV output. The TV output is done by the FS454 chip itself, so I
> don't need mplayer to support it directly. I only need the X-Server to
> support it, which it does since Intel provides some Linux drivers.

Sounds interesting. Does it run with a 720x576 framebuffer, or scale
down from a PC standard resolution like 800x600? Most graphic cards that
do scaling degrade the quality so much that the difference between
letting your TV or the PC do the scaling would be the least of your
worries. But if it's designed as a STB it may be better quality.
Apparently the X-Box has much better quality TV out than an NVidia PC
graphics card, but I don't know what resolution framebuffer it uses.
Without scaling it might make more problems for games to work on both
PAL and NTSC versions.

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