[MPlayer-users] Movies stretched vertically in portrait mode

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:34:26PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:41:53 -0400
> "John Brown" <johnbrown105 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > When I put my video card in portrait mode, so that my resolution is
> > 1024 (W)  X 1280 (H), MPlayer stretches movies vertically, and I have
> > to use  -monitoraspect 1024:1280 to correct it.
> > 
> > Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> It's a (much debated) feature...
> 
> Many devs want MPlayer to use the X11 info automatically, many other
> devs don't want it to, because it can often be wrong.  Search the
> archives (probably on mplayer-dev-en) if you'd like to read the debate.

There is now the -monitorpixelaspect option that should work well in
most cases and without the pitfalls of any auto-detection.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger