On 3/11/07, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pascal Schirrmann wrote:
> >
> > I have a 16/9 TV (the old way, that is the resolution doesn't change,
> > but the picture is 'stretched'. I have also a Hauppauge PVR-350, [...]
> >
> > Also, if I have a 16/9 movie, it is displayed in 4/3 size (letterbox),
> > and I have to zoom on the TV, with a poor video result.
>
> I have a similar problem, 16x9 TV and a both nvidia and PVR-350 cards,
> but have not found a satisfactory solution. mplayer seems to compress
> the video vertically so the movie has black borders all round. The
> quality looks good. IIRC the video signal should be compressed
> horizontally. The "-monitoraspect 16:9" option to mplayer helps, but is
> not good when a video is 16x9.
The problem is the video is 4:3, with black bars encoded at the top
and bottom of the picture (technically, I think this is 16L12: a 16:9
picture letterboxed within a 12:9 (i.e. 4:3) frame).
My own setup works well for *actual* 16:9 videos (e.g. DVB-T streams,
DivX videos etc.)
For the record, I've got:
-- xorg.conf ----------------
DisplaySize 272 153
-- ~/.mplayer/config --------
monitoraspect=16:9
...and obviously running the only (AFAIK) anamorphic skin, "Panorama".
This is all on a telly using S-Video input.
For the problem of 16L12 videos you probably *don't* want to configure
mplayer to use an anamorphic output. TV zoom would then be usually
used, but defining a video filter to stretch the output from the
Freevo box would probably result in better quality. Modifying
MPLAYER_OPTS in local.conf adding a `-vf' option, perhaps?
Hope that helps,
Andrew
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