[MPlayer-users] Playing 1920x1080 on a smaller display

[Joey Parrish]

On 7/10/07, koffiejunkie <koffiejunkielistlurker at koffiejunkie.za.net> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> When I try to play a 1920x1080 .mkv file on my notebook (1400x1050), it
> scales down automatically, but the left side of the movie (looks like
> the percentage that would have been off screen if it was full size) is
> just solid pink.
>
> This is using -vo xv and with the fglrx driver (Radeon 200M) but it does
> the same with the radeon and ati modules.
>
> I've tried to zoom and scale it in various different ways, but it
> doesn't want to work.
>
> Anybody knows hy this happens?

Software scaling should fix it.  Try adding -vf scale=1400:-2 to your
command line.

--Joey