[MPlayer-users] Re: Improper scaling on 5:4 display

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Ben Buchwald <bb2 <at> alumni.cmu.edu> writes:

> Thanks, that was exactly the tip I needed. -monitorpixelaspect 1 to
> treat my pixels as square. It's so weird that I didn't find that
> option on my own when looking though the manpage since I tried a bunch
> of the options right above it and a bunch of the options right below
> it. Might I suggest that the default behavior should probably be to
> assume square pixels, especially with the rise of odd aspect ratio
> lcds on laptops and an assumption that people run these things at
> their native res?

Allow me to add that this is not only true for lcds:
My Sony (F)W900 (16:10) also needs -monitorpixelaspect 1

Carl Eugen