On Wednesday 16 November 2005 00:02, Nick Rout wrote: > I am not sure that you are at all correct. With mplayer I can resize a > window with my mouse and the aspect is retained (ie i drag the window > wider and it also gets taller). There are certainly no restrictions like > 100/200% - any size seems to work. > > And aspect seems to work well when resizing to fullscreen too. If it is > in some form of letterbox (eg 16:9) you get black lines above and below, > just as expected. > > Some media formats (avi?) have a place in the header to specify aspect > ratio, whereas others seem to leave it to the player to guess from the > frame size. If the header doesn't specifiy then the player can get > confused, but mplayer has the -aspect switch which seems to fix this on > the rare occasion that it is an issue. And it is not well hidden, > searching the man page for "aspect" turns it up. > > I see that there is also a switch called "-nokeepaspect": > > -nokeepaspect > Do not keep window aspect ratio when resizing windows. Only works with > the x11, xv, xmga, xvidix, directx video output drivers. Furthermore under > X11 your window manager has to honor window aspect hints. > > Maybe this is turned on in your machine? > > Check /etc/mplayer.conf (system wide) and ~/.mplayer/* >
I do not have this options in any config, which are both the defaults one, but when I resize the (g)mplayer window with the mouse, the aspect ratio is totally ignored. Which is pretty annoying. Xine, on the other hand, does honor the aspect ratio. When the window is to tall or wide, black lines are added until the aspect is correct. Glück Auf Volker -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
