[MPlayer-users] Fullscreen but not full screen

[Swapnil Jain]

On 18-Apr-2011, at 2:00 PM, Oliver Seitz wrote:

> 
>>> the -zoom options turns on software scaling, with vdpau you should have
>>> hardware scaling which is much more efficient.
>> 
>> 
>> how do i use that. fullscreen is hardware or software???
> 
> Usually, all display scaling is done in hardware. Most hardware does support scaling (...even VIA chipsets...), and software scaling is very CPU consuming. Therefore software scaling is not used unless you ask for it. So, if your hardware/driver does not support scaling (e.g. -vo x11 ) you'll might be having black borders around your picture in fullscreen mode.
> 
> Greets,
> Kiste
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now what i found is the VDPAU driver is prescaling the movie, i need to find a way to stop that


Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1024x576 MPEG2 VDPAU acceleration  [fs]

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Swapnil