[MPlayer-users] panscan not working

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Jake Briggs <jakbri <at> coretech.co.nz> writes:

> Now, on my workmates laptop, it does work. The test video (I tried many) 
> is a 4:3 video, we are both paying it on non 4:3 displays. Playing it 
> full screen, and hitting the w and e buttons "zooms" the video - cutting 
> off the image at the top and bottom until the left and right sides 
> extend to the width of the screen.

Either the video or the display are not 4:3 or the behaviour of mplayer is
correct: panscan only works if the aspect ratio of video and display are
different.

> I am using the xv output for video out. I am using version 1.0rc2-4.3.3

Only latest svn is supported on this mailing list.

Carl Eugen