Andrew Flegg wrote: > 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
I know that with nvidia, it makes no difference the latest drivers only output 720x576 and modelines are ignored. > > -- ~/.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? There seems to be a way to automatically tell the telly that the media is 16x9. Something my set-top DVD player does (I don't think that it could be sending out the WSS signal). I seem to remember reading that some sort of marker in the video told the telly to go to wide screen mode. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
