D'oh... of course once I got to thinking after sending that, I thought of a few things that might answer my question. Like that NTSC TV has 525 scan lines, but at least 20 (probably 25) of those at the top don't display any picture information. If you figure 20 of the bottom ones don't display picture information either, bingo: 480 height.
And while the horizontal resolution of TV was always a little fuzzy (no pun intended), it was generally accepted to be around 700 or 720 vertical 'lines'. 720x480... the displayable area of NTSC video. >.< What I also neglected to mention is that mplayer cuts off the right side of my test AVI only when using fullscreen (-fs) mode. If I omit the -fs switch, the video plays centered (more or less) with black bars around it, being originally 512x384. If I use the -xy 640 switch, it expands out to fill the screen, although probably it falls short of the edges just a little bit (but takes up the full 480 height). If I use both -xy and -fs, it goes back to the cut-off fullscreen shennanigans. Does that help any toward a solution? Or is using -xy and -geometry to shift the picture an accepted way of doing things? James __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
