[MPlayer-users] Re: General video question so as to understand movie aspect

[RC]

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:58:31 +1200
Phil Bertram <phil.bertram at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> If the movie is now at the correct aspect calculated by -lavcopts
> autoaspect why is this movie scaled again at playback?

autoaspect stores the correct aspect in the output video and container,
to tell the player how to scale it for proper display.  It doesn't
modify (scale) the video to make an aspect unnecessary.