quoth the Hemmann, Volker Armin: > 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.
I have the exact same behavior here. All the options seem to imply that keeping the aspect ratio is the default, but it just isn't working like that. All the options in the man page involving 'aspect' describe how to change this default behavior (which isn't happening...) and logically negating them in mplayer.conf doesn't appear to work in the few attempts I've made. I'm using kde, perhaps it is interference by the WM at work here... To tell the truth though, this doesn't really bother me too much since I usually only use 'Double' or fullscreen size. It is odd though. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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