This is exactly what I was looking for (the second part at least).  I will
try it soon.

Thanks so much!!

Joe

José María Franco Fraiz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can do both things:
>
> If you have a wid screen and want 4:3 videos to be displayed filling up
> the
> screen you should put "monitoraspect=4:3" in your
> /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf,
> although I wouldn't recommend this.
>
> I would go for switching aspect ration at play time, binding some
> different
> aspect ratios to remote keys. This allows you to switch aspect ratio at
> will
> for the video you are playing. To do this put these lines in your
> local_conf.py:
>
> EVENTS['video']['4']       = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
> arg='switch_ratio
> 1.33334')
> EVENTS['video']['5']       = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
> arg='switch_ratio
> 1.5')
> EVENTS['video']['6']       = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
> arg='switch_ratio
> 1.77778')
>
> 4, 5, 6 are the keys I use in my remote. You could use any other keys to
> suit your preferences.
>
> You can do about the same with VIDEO_SEND_XINE_CMD, but I don't remember
> the
> argument right now.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Joe Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I have not seen anything in the mplayer documentation about this and I
>> know it is not an issue with freevo, but I though someone here may have
>> encountered something like this and put together something.
>>
>> I have a LCD TV that has a native resolution of 1368x768.  I have
>> changed
>> may settings in ~/.mplayer/config to see if I could get the results I
>> desire, but I do not think they exist (aspect, monitoraspect, fs, zoom).
>> I have also changed the autocrop feature on, but it totally messed up
>> some
>> video, so it will not work.
>>
>> Basically, I would like things that are 4x3 ratio to fill the screen,
>> but
>> anything else, to play normally (I want the black bars on top and
>> bottom,
>> but not on the sides).  I am pretty sure there is no way to do this
>> on-the-fly in mplayer through freevo, and I am considering putting some
>> logic in the config of freevo that will check the CONF.width and
>> CONF.height of the video and determine the ratio to the results I
>> desire.
>> VLC will do this during video play by hitting the "A" key.  If anyone
>> has
>> already accomplished such a thing, please let me know.  Or if anyone is
>> interested in something similar and would like to collaborate that would
>> be nice as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
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