[MPlayer-users] certain avi files shifted off to right with fullscreen

[Steven A. DuChene]

I have been using various versions of mplayer obtained from
svn and I am experiencing a problem with certain types of avi
files. When the avi file contains xvid video format and I play
the video using a fullscreen option with mplayer the resulting
video plays full screen but 1/4 of the video is cut off on the
right hand edge of the screen. In this case mplayer says it is
using ffmpeg ffodivx to decode the file.

If I play avi files with DIV3 content inside them this does not
happen. In that case mplayer says it is using ffmpeg ffdivx to
play the file.
 
I have tried setting the monitoraspect to 16:9 and using vo xv
instead of vo vdpau. I have also tried various combonations
of vc or vfm options in an attempt to have it use a different
codec on the files. I tried using -vfm dshow,vfw,xvid,ffmpeg
but it says dshow and vfw are not available and falls back
to using ffmpeg anyway.

I am compiling mplayer from source on my x86_64 system on
OpenSuSE-11.1 and displaying it to a HDTV using a NVidia
GeForce 8200 onboard video chipset. The HDTV is connected
via a DVI to HDMI cable. I am using a SVN version of mplayer
because of the desire to use the -vo vdpau option.

This is with MPlayer SVN-r29746-4.3
Prior to updating today I was using a slightly older version
from SVN and with -fs that shifted the video output display
down and to the right of the screen leaving black bands on
the left and upper part of the screen. It cut off the bottom
and right hand edges of the video output. This one no longer
does the black bands but still cuts off part of the video.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions about what I could look at?
I think because I am doing this on a x86_64 system I am limited
in what codecs I have available to mplayer.
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Steven DuChene