[MPlayer-users] thank you for help, (2) more questions please

[The Wanderer]

Ant Lamp wrote:

> Hello, ok, let's say I run mplayer on a video.  It opens a new Window
> up at its defeault Window size, like 720x540.  ON my large monitor,
> I can grab the Window and scale it up to 1284x922.  I would like to
> do this not manually, but from command line.  When I try this it
> doesn't go past a certain point,
> 
> mplayer -vf crop=1284:922

Of course that doesn't work. "Crop" means "cut" as in "remove";
obviously you can't make something bigger by removing something from it.

Try

mplayer -x 1284 -y 922

or (if your aspect ratio matches)

mplayer -xy 1284

and see if that does what you're after. If not, the next thing I would
look at would probably be '-vf scale'

> separately, Can someone please explain how the -idle command works?
> Does it have any purpose in Windows environment?  I mean, if I run:
> mplayer -idle 
> 
> It will sit there after displaying the  MPlayer detection and intro
> stuff... and sit there.  I think it is idling... but how in fact do I
> send commands to it from Windows?  Is it somehow from another dos
> shell or some other procedure?  Please clue me in.

What '-idle' does is tell MPlayer to remain open after playback
finishes, instead of automatically exiting. This is useful for
front-ends and the like, which can pass it new files to load via slave
commands (as described in DOCS/tech/slave.txt). For most users, it's not
really that useful; I've certainly never bothered with it.

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