[MPlayer-users] New list member - question

[MHR]

I use CentOS 5.3 on my desktop (among other places), and I recently
noticed a rather strange occurrence.

I created an AVI with MEncoder out of a collection of photos that are
all 1024x768.  However, when I play it back, I get the playback in a
window that is clearly wider than 1024 pixels.  I took a window
snapshot of the playback, and it is 1230x768, even though MPlayer
reports that it is 1024x768 and is prescaling it to the correct movie
aspect:

[mhr at mhrichter show]$ mp show.avi
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor (Family: 16, Model: 2, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

Playing show.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO:  [FMP4]  1024x768  24bpp  1.000 fps  186.6 kbps (22.8 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1024 x 768 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1024x768 => 1024x768 Planar YV12
A:  34.4 V:  35.0 A-V: -0.598 ct:  0.000  36/ 36  0%  0%  0.0% 0 0
  =====  PAUSE  =====

My video is a 1680x1050 22" monitor, if that matters.

My question is:  Yes, I know this is not the most current revision of
MPlayer - it is, last I checked, the most recent revision available
from rpmforge, which is my #1 resource for non-distro apps.  Is this
something that has been fixed in a more recent revision?

(No, I have not tried pulling down the most recent source and building
it myself.  If needed, I can, but I was hoping to find out if it's
worth it first....)

Thanks!

mhr