John, A little more on the mplayer issues. I know that this has been talked about to some degree on the list but I want to let you know about the scaling issues with mplayer. Whan I use the following command, "mplayer -fs -vo xv -vf scale=720:-3,expand=720:480 %s", the picture appears to scale properly but only displays on the top half of my TV screen. If I drop the "-fs" option I can see the whole picture, but it plays in a window and I end up seeing the caption bar at the top and part of the window frame at the bottom. Perhaps you can try the above mplayer command and see what you get, if you haven't already done so. I would be curious to see if it functions properly for you.
Also, with respect to xine, I would like to be able to control the scaling better but I don't find the same kind of options as I do in mplayer. I have been able to acheive decent scaling by using the "-r anamorphic" option (for my 16:9 aspect ratio videos), however, a blue line appears in the middle of the black bars at the top and bottom of the picture on the TV screen. I'm not sure if this is a xine issue or an issue with the X driver (0.10.4). Just thought it might be worth mentioning. I am in NTSC land. Also, do you have any command line option variations that I should try with mplayer to see if I can get a better scaled picture in full screen mode? Thanks, Jim ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
