[MPlayer-users] Trouble playing HD Windows Media

[Jeff Cook]

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Corey Hickey wrote:
> Jeff Cook wrote:
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> I'm not sure why you would expect the video to be downscaled by default;
> mplayer doesn't upscale unless you tell it to, either.
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> Actually, there is a bug somewhere when playing the hd wmv files I've
> seen -- the aspect ratio is wrong. Such files are not actually HD
> resolution: they're 1440x1080 instead of 1920x1280 and need to be
> upscaled horizontally or the aspect ratio is incorrect. I don't know if
> it's an mplayer bug; I've been too lazy to investigate it, so that's my
> fault. The workaround is to use '-aspect 1920:1080' to force the scaling.

Hmmm. OK, thanks for letting me know. : )


> That does indeed sound like your system is too slow, but I agree that an
> Athlon64 3200+ should be more than enough. We'll see.

Yeah. I can play even other Windows Media videos of higher resolutions
without  a hitch -- I'm pretty sure it's not my hardware.

> Ick, I can't get to those files. Picking through a bunch of
> subscriber-only webpages to download a file is beyond the attention span
> of most of us. Please do one of these:
> 
> 1. Upload the file to your anonymous http/ftp server if you have one.
> 2. Upload the file to ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming.
> 3. Try to find a publically available file that has the same problem.

OK, I guess I'll just upload brothersarms3_ot_mul_050106_hd.wmv to the
mplayer ftp; it should be up within an hour or two (of 1:02 PM CDT).
Thanks for the help. : )

Also, I'm a developer and I've always wanted to get more into projects
like mplayer, but I don't know enough about programming video or
whatever to do much of anything. Is there a good resource I can go to to
get the foundation I'd need to be valuable to mplayer? I'll try to hunt
down and subscribe to a dev list soon.

Thanks again,
Jeff
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