[MPlayer-users] A 1:1 rendition, please

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:55:54AM -0000, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What commandline options can I use with mplayer to guarantee that it will 
> render one display pixel for every pixel in the file?
> 
> I ask because I just tried to play a 1920x1080 file on a 1920x1200 display, 
> and had to explicitly add:
> 
> -monitoraspect 16:10
> 
> ....to make it look anything like right - otherwise, mplayer was rendering 
> the image vertically compressed, more like a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. I have no 
> idea how mplayer arrived at the conclusion that this was correct. Visually 
> it looked like it was assuming a 4:3 display, which I can't see is a very 
> sensible default, but regardless - is there any way to guarantee 1:1 
> playback?

Why would you want to? This is sure to be wrong for roughly half of
files regardless of your settings. Just provide the correct setting
for monitoraspect, which depends only on your physical monitor, not
the movie being watched.

Rich