[MPlayer-users] Slave command "panscan" doesn't work with frontends.

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:27:09AM -0400, Eric Appleman wrote:
> On 08/27/2009 04:44 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 04:30:35AM -0400, Eric Appleman wrote:
> >> SMPlayer: http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5809/mazuiharuhi21overscan.png
> >>
> >> MPlayer: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6272/mplayeroverscan.png
> >>
> >> Why is this happening?
> > 
> > Frontends use -wid. MPlayer fully fills that given window, leaving full
> > control of position and size to the frontend. Thus panscan handling is
> > out of MPlayer's hands.
>
> I see. But according rvm, SMPlayer is forced to emulate panscan and that
> the correct behavior I seek cannot easily be replicated.
> 
> In this case, the proper behavior is that of MPlayer, where the
> subtitles are not cut off.
> 
> The issue at hand is not the panscan itself, but how the subtitles are
> treated during a panscan.

Hm. Well, I intended to work on "fullscreen" with wid, where the meaning
of fullscreen would be switching between aspect/panscan handling by
application or by MPlayer.
It should not be that hard, I just never got around to implement it, and
it is also always a bit of a pain to test the -wid stuff.