For me it is no big problem to install another media player, but Totem is fine and it is the default after installing a fresh Ubuntu. Now I'd like it if Linux becomes more popular on the desktop and I think that's only possible if it works out of the box and if it is easy for non computer experts too.
Meanwhile I found a better way to fix this problem, but I still don't fully understand how this works. gstreamer comes with a graphic configuration tool "gstreamer-properties". You can start it from the command line. Click on the video tab. Near "Default Output" You will probably see something like "auto detect" (I'm using a Dutch language version) . Select from the list the Custom option and replace what's in the "pipeline" field with 'identity ! xvimagesink pixel-aspect- ratio=1/1'. After testing and closing Totem works fine and still does after rebooting. Although this fixed the problem, I still like to know why the wrong screen dimensions seem to be detected at default. Moreover, although I found the above settings somewhere on the internet, I don't exactly understand how it works and I can't find any detailed documentation. -- Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic - Wrong aspect ratio in movies. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488495 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
