[MPlayer-users] I can see only a quarter of the screen!

[Corey Hickey]

Fabio S. wrote:
>>> I have a strange problem. I made (as usual) some videoclips with my sanyo
>>> xanti c5. It outputs clips in quicktime format which are 640x480.
>>> Well, I downloaded them on my pc and looking at them they are recognized
>>> as 320x240, so that I can see only the upper left quadrant of the movie.
>> That's a known problem with the native quicktime demuxer. Use '-demuxer
>> lavf' for those files.
>>
> 
> Thanks a lot: now it works.
> 
> One more small question: I usually reencode that clips with mencoder in 
> order to watch them on tv by the dvd player. The reencoded file still has 
> the same problem even with the option "-demuxer lavf".
> I guess I should use this option duringe reencoding also, isn't it?

Yes, for those files and any others which run into that bug in the
native quicktime demuxer.

-Corey