[MPlayer-users] Slideshow display problems

[Paul M]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 22:34:21 Reimar D wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 08:25:21PM +0000, Paul M wrote:
> >
> > On 1 Sep 2012 19:24:22 Erik wrote:
> > >
> > > On 09/01/2012 06:54 PM, Paul M wrote:
> > > > I am attempting to run mplayer to display a slideshow of jpeg images using the command: mplayer -mf fps=0.25:type=jpeg mf://pictures/*.
> > > >
> > > > - The pictures look great except for the fact that they usually (but not always) overlap the edges of the screen. The pictures are correctly centred vertically, but not horizontally.
> > >
> > > Have you tried the -fs option (for fullscreen)?
> >
> > Yes, I've tried -fs. That doesn't change the behaviour.
>
> MPlayer does not do software scaling by default, so even with -fs the
> images will be displayed at their native solution.
> If you want MPlayer to scale, you need to e.g. add -zoom.

I can scale the image alright using eg "-zoom -x 1280".  But that still leaves me with
the problem of the left and right edges of the picture being somewhere - seemingly
randomly - in the middle of the screen rather than where they should be.

Thanks,

Paul