[MPlayer-users] play back 720p video

[Phil_Rhodes@rocketmail.com]

> Under Windows, it's likely that the app playing it under windows can use
> some sort of acceleration (decoding, scaling) provided by the graphics
> card, which mplayer cannot use, so it can very well be that a file plays
> smoothly in windows, but not with mplayer.

Not a problem I have. Behind Outlook right now I have mplayer running a 
1920x1080 AVC movie trailer no problem at all; it scales happily. It's 
clearly doing it in hardware because if I force the issue with -vf scale 
1280:720 performance becomes positively canine.

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