On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:50:49 -0800 darren kirby wrote: > 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...
Yes i will try it in kde tonight. However I suspect its more likely a video driver issue. see below. > > 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. What output driver are you using? I am using xv Looking at the output of mplayer running from the command line should tell you. Also mplayer -vo help will give you a list of those available. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
