I should add, that the my previous comment refers to a machine with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900, with automatically configured X (no xorg.conf)
On my other machine (Clevo notebook with some Via UniChrome graphics card) I had to configure X manually with a previously written xorg.conf. On the manually configured X the videos play with correct aspect ratio. So I think there is some parameter set by the x.org automatism. This parameter exclusively affects gstreamer and thus totem, but not mplayer and vlc. -- [hardy] videos aren't playing with proper aspect ratio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211732 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs