[MPlayer-users] dvd, black and grey bars

[Julius Junghans]

Am Montag 24 Juli 2006 23:55 schrieb Ivan Kowalenko:
> On Jul 23, 2006, at 06.33, Julius Junghans wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > playing dvds with mplayer mostly results into black bars at the top
> > and bottom
> > of the screen
>
> What's the original aspect ratio of your movie? Movies with aspect
> ratios that are wider than 16:9 have to be letterboxed to conform to
> the DVD spec. It's also possible you have a 16:9 movie, but it's
> letterboxed into a 4:3 video (some older movies did that).
>
> > just below the top black bars are grey bars...same for the
> > bottom bar. is there a way to get rid of them?
>
> We would need to know a little more about the nature of these gray
> bars. What video-out are you using? What's the codec of the video?
> Things like that. It could help if you gave us a console dump.
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Sorry for the late reply, had to fight with localization...

./gmplayer -vo xv /mnt/dvd/VTS_02_2.VOB
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:         Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, 
Stepping: 8)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2



Playing /mnt/dvd/VTS_02_2.VOB.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  384.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
alsa-init: using device default
alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
alsa-uninit: pcm closed 0.018 ct: -0.518 293/293 15%  6%  1.7% 2 0